It was the spring of 1950 and a young boy of 12 and his father walked into Joe’s Bicycle Shop on the north side where they lived and where the young man’s father owned a bakery. This was the old Polish neighbourhood, populated with immigrants from Europe who came to Canada to make a new [...]
Archive for October, 2011
A Little Snapshot…
Posted in Cycling, Uncategorized, tagged 1950, edmonton, raleigh, sports on October 22, 2011 | Comments Off
It’s All Good…
Posted in Life and Loves, tagged Arvon, Glenora, physiotherapy, seperable, touring on October 17, 2011 | Comments Off
Up early today as I had my regular physio appointment… seems that over the past three days I managed to knock my hips out of alignment so got that straightened out and then got more traction, electrocution, and struggled through my regular sets of weights. The folk at Glenora Physiotherapy are awesome and will be [...]
For The Boys…
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2011 | Comments Off
My step son came by this afternoon so we could work on his 1975 Peugeot UO8 that I got for him 4 years ago… it was a beautiful orange bicycle in mint condition and he loves this bicycle. A little crash damaged the crank beyond repair so we decided that it was time to upgrade [...]