Rich Aucoin

Today I got to bike with Tim Harriman who is the real-deal biking for same charity that I chose to raise money for, The Childhood Cancer Foundation. He’s a young guy and cancer survivor and is out there biking for other cancer survivors who have been affected by cancer at such a young age. A […]

Leaving Quebec City started with a really steep descend down to Old Quebec and over to the ferry which takes a plethora of cyclists to the other side of the river every day to bike along their great bike trails. I biked up the river for a while before stopping to realize that this side […]

Quebec is very bike friendly and, in fact, it has alternate routes in many places where (if your tires are good enough you can bike into cities without having to do any street biking as there are so many bike trails running along major streets like Nortre Dame). After getting a little lost in Laval […]

Starting out in Peterborough with The Fire Flower Revue: Then onto Arden where a nice “as close to camping as it got” stop was made: I made my way to Ottawa while it was constantly; too hot for the hot tub: (oh and what an accurate prediction I made in Arden as to when my […]

I biked into Toronto via that long street they have called Yonge St. I decided to make an all-Toronto playlist for the bike too and so I listened to Broken Social Scene, The Golden Dogs, The Diableros, Cuke The Duke, FemBots, Final Fantasy, Major Grange, Laura Barrett and, of course, The Hylozoists; I give my […]

So today I learned a valuable lesson; you can’t bike on Highways with over 100km/hr speed limit. I learned this while being escourted off Hwy 400 into Barrie by the Ontario Provincial Police (who were very kind). Sure, I wasn’t stupid enough to think I could go in on the 400 all the way to […]

Today was the longest bike of the tour (I secretly know this because I may or may not be writing this blog at the end of the tour); 168km. This was a long bike coupled with the fact that I played music until 2:15am the night before, tear-down until 3:00am and fell asleep around 4:20am. […]

Well, after Marathon, the other performer (coincidentally also named Rich) drove me to Wawa where I performed at this fantastic kayak/outdoors adventure retreat called Naturally Superior. Being used to people not looking at me while I perform because of the sync, it was not problem that here people are able to look out onto Lake […]

Today I biked past the end point of Canadian legend Terry Fox and his inspiring run against Cancer. I continued and biked on to Nipigon biking over large hills along the turquoise water of Lake Superior. “Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss 🙂