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GREEN VALLEY -- Cycling has grown tremendously in this area over the last few years. A big part of that growth can be attributed to the efforts of Green Valley Bike and Hike owner Damian Leuck.
If you talk to serious cyclists around here (even newcomers to the sport), his name invariably comes up as someone who encouraged, influenced, assisted, or advised them.
Leuck came here when you could spot a few bikers now and then, sometimes battling golfers for space in the golf cart lanes. Today, eight years later, it’s likely you’ll see long lines of colorfully clad road riders heading across town on their way out into the valley, recumbent riders tooling around the neighborhoods, and trailblazers kicking up dust in the desert. |
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On sidewalks on Bloor Street where Holt Renfrew rubs shoulders with Williams-Sonoma, hundreds from Toronto’s bicycle community gathered yesterday afternoon to remember Darcy Allen Sheppard, the bike courier who was killed this week following a conflict with a Saab convertible driven by a former provincial cabinet minister.
Men holding expensive Konas and wearing tight bike shorts mixed with women in capris pants and their second-hand street cycles and teenagers with cargo shorts and beat up mountain bikes.
Bells on countless handle bars started chiming shortly after 5 p.m. One by one, the rally members dropped over curbs onto Bloor to join a parade of riders destined to return to the very spot Sheppard had died. |
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