A Velodrome May Be Built in Hamilton

As part of the plans for Toronto hosting the 2015 pan-am games, Hamilton may get a velodrome. Rob Roberts writes, in The National Post:

Hamilton is slated for a ... permanent velodrome (which almost got cut for a lack of funding), but city councillors in Steeltown are balking at spending money on a marquee sporting event in tough economic times. They vote next week on participation.

I had selfishly been hoping that Toronto would get the velodrome. On the other hand, they could have just held the indoor bike races in the veolodrome in London; at least Hamilton is a bit closer.

More realistically, I'd probably never use the velodrome. Biking to Hamilton sounds nice though.

Photo of the Manchester Velodrome by johnthescone.

Icycle 2009

The Icycle races were held last night. Watching ice bike racing, a lot of people are like someone who goes to a hockey game mostly to see the fights. By this, I mean that they're mostly there to see people fall down. That's when people cheer the loudest.

The people who won the races were all folks with pretty high end bikes and appeared to be dedicated cyclists, until the rubber tire race, when a guy on an old beater seemed to have won, which is awesome.