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Cheers: Niagara Route of Vélo-Québec’s 2014 Grand Tour

To Your Good Health and Cycling Vélo-Québec has announced details including map and itinerary of its Grand Tour for 2014 (Aug. 2-8) taking cyclists through the bountiful wine country of the Canadian shore of Lake Erie and the Niagara Peninsula.

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Vélo-Québec’s Grand Tour Desjardins cycling event heads for Niagara wine country August 2-8

Cyclists are known to work up a big thirst during a long hot day in the saddle. And the 2,000 or so who will take part in Vélo-Québec’s annual Grand Tour Desjardins will be in for a special treat next

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Independent spirit on a bike

It’s hard to imagine a person of a more independent spirit than Andrew Alford, whom I met while pedaling along Highway 132 in the Lower St. Lawrence region of Quebec last week. It was raining and Andrew was wrapped in

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I’ll drink to that

A cycling trip that ends in Ontario’s Niagara wine country sounds good to me. There will be the happy sounds of corks popping when the sixth annual Great Waterfront Trail Adventure rolls into Fort Erie on August 17. Organizers Marlaine

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