Happy Mother's Day ... and a question ...

Was your mother influential in getting you into cycling?


Mine was. Both my parents cycled, first on singles and later on tandems. Our house was full of cycling stuff, and bicycles accompanied us on our holidays. And we cycled together as a family.

I particularly remember our trips into the Canadian Rockies. We'd stay at Banff for a while and on at least one day, we'd do a ride out to Johnson's Canyon. My father would go earlier and ride further and then would turn around and ride back to meet us. My mother, brother and I would take off an hour or so later and cruise along together until we met up with my father, and then we'd cycle the rest of the way to Johnson's Canyon and back together.