The SFU Velo Club

Here we are as a team up on Burnaby Mountain: From left to right: David, Dan, Craig, Tom Poiker, Walter, Simon, Jerry Sheppard, Leigh, with Gwen and Doug on bottom. What an athletic group!

Intro : This brief history of the SFU VELO is based on Doug Allen’s original site.

In the spring of 2005 a group of mostly middle aged faculty at SFU formed the road riding bike club velo-sfu. The club was initiated by Doug Allen of the Department of Economics, and he arranged for the production of team jerseys by a local supplier. Club membership varied between the original 10 and up to 20 memebers at various times. The group hung together for a number of years until many started to retire. By about 2010 it was pretty much finished, although a few of us continue to ride together from time to time.

Our team was terrible at remembering to bring a camera (or film) to an event, but here are some pictures of a few of our rides in 2005.

Herein are some pictures from various events from the first couple of years.

In case anyone ever wondered, this is the reason riders wear black cycling shorts.