What is Atlantic Canada Cycling?

Bicycle Tours - Each year hundreds of people take advantage of our expertise and enjoy our great cycling events. We know all the best cycling routes and all the hidden corners, people get to explore the very best areas for biking. The tours are an enjoyable experience. They are fun, social, and reasonably-priced events.

Touring Information - It is not just the great cycling events. Atlantic Canada Cycling also provides advice and information about cycling in this beautiful part of the world. With almost a quarter-century of helping people, Atlantic Canada Cycling is the most experienced resource for cycling enquiries about the region, now totaling many thousands of calls, letters and e-mails.

We absolutely LOVE doing this. We have cycled almost every road there is here and are passionate about sharing it.

His personal cycling trips increased in length, leading to crossing Canada in 1976, just before the arrival of triple-chainrings and cycling shorts (ouch). Bicycle trips came first, jobs were sandwiched in-between, doing work such as library assistant, bicycle mechanic, warehouse worker, and even as a bicycle messenger. Many of his trips were return journeys to two favourite places - Quebec and Vermont. Longer trips included circling around several of the Great Lakes, to England, Ireland, several trips to the eastern and southern U.S., the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

In the early 1980's Gary was appointed Touring Director with the government sports body Bicycle Nova Scotia, and also the Touring Committee of the Canadian Cycling Association.

An appeal in Bicycling Magazine encouraged Gary to recruit used bicycle parts to be shipped to money-strapped Poland. His efforts garnered him an invitation to a nine-day bicycle festival there. The only Canadian invited at the event of 4,400 people, he returned full of excitement to hold a similar type of gathering back home

In 1987 he organized the first Atlantic Canada Bicycle Rally. It turned out to be a far over-the-top affair, taking thousands of hours of work, much of it proving later to be unnecessary. It drew 118 people. They loved it and demanded it become an annual event. From then an after-rally tours were added and Atlantic Canada Cycling begun.

Using his expertise on cycling in the region, it the mid 1990's Gary turned his cycling notes into a book on cycling, the "Nova Scotia Bicycle Book".

He was selected for another position, Atlantic Canada Director for C-KAP, the Canadian Cycling distance recording program.

He has cycled over 150,000 kilometres. He currently has seven bicycles, from a folding bike to a tandem. His main bike is a mid 1990's Cannondale touring bike.

Gary likes to take the long-way round. ..always the scenic route. If there is one less car he will go that way. He loves the planning as much as the on-road execution of the tours. His goal is to be honest, a big peeve is to him are the many cycling vacation sites that show only sunny skies and pretty people smiling. "The real world of cycling is not like that, the elements are not always perfect, and breakdowns are also part of the game." To Gary, cycling is a labour of love.

Atlantic Canada Cycling Headquarters

ACC's home today from the street. We are happy to say a small coffee shop has moved in after we took this picture. It comes in handy in the busy stretch.