By Wayne Scanlan, Ottawa Citizen, September 8, 2014
I’ve had a life-long fascination with road cycling. At 16, I was one of the
first residents of Scarborough to own a 10-speed bike my one and only experience
of being out front on technology, and thought nothing of wheeling my U.K.-built
Dawes Galaxy from the suburbs through the streets of Toronto to a summer job on
the grounds of the grand old Ex, the Canadian National Exhibition. It was a
40-kilometre round trip, in the lighter traffic of the day, and if I bounced off
the odd door suddenly thrust open without warning from a vehicle parked along
Danforth Avenue, I came to no serious harm. via
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