Cycle Canada Management
Bud Jorgensen
Bud
is the principal of CycleCanada and Executive Director of Tour du Canada. He is an avid recreational cyclist and advocate.
Bud is the founder of a number of well known cycling events and has developed new routes that have become recognized as Canadian classics.
He is the founder of the Toronto Bicycle Network's Pelee Wheelie, first held in 1986, and, the TBN's signature event Cyclon, first held in 1987.
In 1987 Bud also founded Tour du Canada, an annual cross Canada bicycle ride with an international reputation. In 1995 he researched and layed the ground work for the first annual BiQue Ride, a one week ride from Toronto to Montreal. He continues to develop new routes and events based on his own research in various regions of Canada. To name a few - Acadian Coast in New Brunswick, the Cariboo Trail in British Columbia, Erie Shores, following the northern shore of Lake Erie and Tour of the Trent (Triple T), which follows the Trent Waterway system from Lake Huron to Lake Ontario,
Bud is a member of the Randonneurs Ontario. He rode the Tour du Canada in 1993 and Paris-Brest in 1991.
He was born and raised in British Columbia and now resides in Ontario. Prior to his full time involvement organizing cycling tours Bud was a columnist with Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper and the economics writer for the Financial Post.
About this photo:
This is a shot of Bud on the final stretch of the Triple T in 1997. Breathing down his neck is Bill Lishman's famous dragon sculpture (you can catch a glimpse of it in the movie Fly Away Home). Years ago Bill had also created Autohenge. We knew the Triple T route passed close by and wanted to "pray" our respects. But we couldn't remember the exact location so we wrote to Bill.
This is Bill's reply:
Sorry to say Autohenge no longer exists, the rusting cars began to sag and the farmer whose land it was on began to worry about liability particularly about teenagers who used to party there when the moon was full and their hormones raged, a sad commentary on our age of litigation - I have hopes some day of making son of autohenge it was a piece I enjoyed every day. If you can think of a way to raise about fifty thousand it could exist again. good riding, what a way to experience the country!
Good luck to Bill, until then we will keep pedalling the roads of this great land in search of mythical creatures and tributes to times gone by.
Pictures of Autohenge can be found on Bill Lishman's web site: Bill Lishman Photography.
