Wheels in the Water

Wheels in the Water - Press Advisory

Contact
Ted Bullock
Wheels in the Water Founder
403-668-7808
tbullock@canada.com
http://www.wheelsinthewater.org

Community project inspires ordinary Canadians to bike across Canada.

Calgary, Alberta - June 2, 2008 - The Wheels in the Water Project is an initiative to inspire and support Canadians who dream of biking across Canada in achieving their goal.

During the 2008 cycling season, Canadians are invited to participate by starting their own cycling adventure, or by assisting cyclists through their extraordinary challenges. Supporting ordinary people in surmounting the incredible challenges involved in biking across Canada is a powerful demonstration of what it means to be Canadian. Cyclists and contributors are welcome to register at the community website http://www.wheelsinthewater.org.

Biking across Canada can seem like an imminently challenging and perhaps impossible task for most people. The vast size, dramatic landscape and challenging road conditions usually seem like insurmountable obstacles. Wheels in the Water is a project which supports and inspires ordinary Canadians in being extraordinary in the face of this challenge.

Wheels in the Water is designed to give everyone in Canada the opportunity to contribute in any way that will make a difference. New and experienced cyclists are encouraged to register at the website, where they can ask and answer questions, create a journal and post photo galleries of their own adventure to share with the world.

Organizations such as bike shops, schools, charities, governments or any other interested group are invited to participate as they see fit. Advertisement of services, destinations of interest, offers and location of accommodation are encouraged and welcome.

About Wheels in the Water

Ted Bullock, a former trans-Canadian cycle tourist created Wheels in the Water as a community project designed to inspire and support Canadians in biking across the Canada. Ted states, Since I finished my own cross Canada bike tour in 2002, I have received hundreds of emails from Canadians interested in doing their own trip, unfortunately many of these people never manage to start. I created the project to inspire everyone who dreams of their own cross Canadian bike tour to actually take it on.

If you have registered an account on this website you are probably wondering how you actually become part of the community!

Well there are a couple things you should know.

To start, after you have registered, you are known as an "authenticated user". This means that you have the ability to post comments to blogs, forums and other pages that allow it, and are also able to get in communication with the site administrator to have your account set up to a particular role.

Picture of sign for biking

Hi!

My name is Ted Bullock and I am proud to say that I have bicycled across Canada.

My trip started on June 2, 2002 and I arrived home on September 8, 2002 (98 days). I biked approximately 7500 kilometers, and traveled through all 10 provinces of Canada.

The inspiration to do the trip came from a conversation with a friend of mine one during the Christmas of 2001. We were complaining about how hard school was, and generally feeling pretty sorry for ourselves. The question came up; What are we going to do this summer?

At first we contemplated canoing down the Bow River, of course neither of us knew how to actually paddle a canoe, and besides we didn't own one anyways.

Also, the thought of driving around North America came up but we decided that we didn't really have enough money, and besides, my old Volkswagen beetle was probably not up to the challenge anyways.

Next I said, "Well, we could bike across the country". Tristan replied, "You can't do that". To myself, I thought "hmmm, Wanna bet!"

That night, I spent the better part of the evening cruising the web on the lookout for information on biking across Canada.

Sure enough I came across two really excellent accounts. The first was by Sean Munro and the second was by Trevor Hennessy.

I am creating this website in the attempt to provide the same inspiration that those accounts gave me, to everyone who dreams of traveling across the country.

So Hi!