MATTAMY NATIONAL CYCLING CENTRE - THE VELODROME SERIES

My recent trip to the new Milton Velodrome has me setting the Hot Tub Time machine to luke warm and heading back, first to 1976, and the

MONTREAL OLYMPIC VELODROME

Holy high heel cycling shoes!

 My brother and I will be forever thankful to our parents for dragging us around at every opportunity we had to see the world.

Here lucky for us this time the world came to Canada.
Hey wait.
I think I see Waldo.

Keirin

Just looking back now, this must have been a 333m track.

The Velodrome hosted not only cycling but also Judo.

Here my mother (r) stands with the Kliens from Niagara Falls. The velodrome in the background, as is the unfinished Big O.

Please enjoy this brief intermission as I slightly adjust the tub's temps so we can jump a few years to .....

1988

where some members of The Fenwick Cycling Club, a side venture of the St Catharines Cycling Club, hit the boards for some mid winter training

Dave Vernoy
Nice hair net.

 Here decorated Canadian cyclist Karen Strong directs her charges,

#29, Dave Vernoy, Karen, Thorold's Lloyd Thomas, The other Fenwick Flash, Ezio Andreola and looking like he's getting ready to mount, Darren ONeal from Welland.

Time has moved on that Mr. Smily here, Ezio Andreola's son has ridin' the Forest City boards, I believe on occasion with his dad.

 Karen's palmares are still rarely matched in Canadian women's cycling.

Click here:
Karen Strong

It was with Karen, Peter Junek, Colin H, Glauco C. and the helping hands of many others that these boys and a few more went on to medal at both Canadian and Provincial Track Championships

He didn't travel with us so I can't say, but is that Piers Davidge in the #1 black and yellow kit?

One sad result of our healthy ways is the at one time,

Player's
sponsored

 EVERYTHING

It was shortly after this session that the track was ripped out and the building converted to a pilgrimage site for Pauly Shore's forgettable movie:

BIO-DOME
click if you dare.
STINKER ALERT!! Bio-Dome

Where to next?

Winnipeg

Wyndam Centre