Wheels in the Water is a community project whose aim is to inspire and support Canadians in bicycling across Canada.

Wheels in the Water - Inspiring Canadians in their Dream to Bicycle Across Canada

Tue, 04/08/2008 - 00:58 — tbullock

Welcome to the Wheels in the Water Project!

This website is a frontend to a community project whose aim is to inspire and support Canadians in bicycling across Canada. This website provides a number of services to cyclists taking on their own cross Canadian bicycle tour:

  • Communication: A personal online web log to which cyclists can post journals and notes, and receive messages from people in their lives
  • Route Advice: Information from veterans and people in the community about which way to go
  • Equipment Recommendations: What to take, leave behind and buy along the way

If you are a current or potential cyclist, please register!

And that is what the Wheels in the Water project is all about!

What to do after you have created your account

Wed, 04/30/2008 - 23:22 — tbullock

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.

Bike Sign

Tue, 04/22/2008 - 20:34 — tbullock
Bike Sign

Picture of sign for biking

Introduction to Ted Bullock

Thu, 04/17/2008 - 22:12 — tbullock

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!

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