“I wanted to make Vancouver more of a place that was safe to ride for people with disabilities or the 8-80. I hadn't got that phrase in my head, but that's what I was thinking - kids and older people. That's what I wanted.”

“I had raced, and I rode cross-country here and did a few things, but I was more interested in the bigger, bigger, bigger picture….As we started getting a little bit more pull here and there, we started doing the CAN-BIKE stuff. That's where, if you will, I dug in.”

"You might get laughed at the first time, but you back it up with numbers and success and experience elsewhere, you can start to make the case. But if you don't do that, you're never going to get the funding that you need, and it's never going to meet anywhere near its potential."

"One of my usual approaches was just to let everybody know that I rode my bike all the time, and if there were ever any cycling aspects of projects, I was happy to help on them. Rather than being hard-nosed about things, I was more of a soft-pedalling lifestyle bicycle advocate."

"The wind blows from positive to negative, back and forth, and if you don't have a constant stream of reinforcing messages, the negative ones can start to dominate. Politicians decide where the money is spent. We run the risk of electing the wrong people for the wrong reason, and having big chunks of this undone."

"I'm not a meeting-goer, I try to avoid them at all costs if I possibly can. I went to one of those meetings and it was mostly guys, and they were all really into maps and routes, and that's totally not what I was into. But I was completely won over by the passion and the integrity and the willingness to sacrifice so much in order to make this city a better place to bike in."

"It's important that you can come into Metro Vancouver as a touring cyclist and you know you're going all the way to Vancouver, all the way to Tsawwassen, or all the way to Horseshoe Bay, as if you were driving a car. We don't do that at all for cycling."

"I think what's been lost is a focus on issues like inclusiveness. For all of the work that's been done, I think HUB is still a very middle to upper class organization. There's lots of white guys. It hasn't really gotten into the concerns and representation of low income cyclists. Groups like PEDAL and Kickstand work on that."

"I came to visit my friends in Vancouver, and one of them asked, 'Well can you do your job in Vancouver?' I said, 'Good question!' So then I started looking into what Vancouver had for Bike to Work Week. And there wasn't one."

"Sometimes you can talk forever and nothing gets done. You go along Lougheed Highway, and then the path ends. They kept promising, yeah we're going to do something about it. But nothing ever happened. It made me very angry, and I had to express that anger. I don't want my friends to get killed."

"How many times has that happened in an accident? 'I didn't see him, the sun was in my eyes.' Oh yeah? So that was my defence — yellow jacket, yellow hat. I'm out there, I'm loud, you're going to see me, and I'm going to act like a car. And I'm going to take the lane."

"You tell car drivers what's there for them — the restaurants, the gas stations. There's all sorts of information you're told. As a cyclist you're told it's a bike route. Well, I know it's a bike route. Tell me something I need to know."

"You can't just build a piece of infrastructure that doesn't take you where you want to go, which you'll still see happening in the suburbs. 'Great we got a grant to do this half kilometre bike lane…that doesn't connect to anything else.' You have to connect a network."

"People take a very subjective advocacy viewpoint. They forget that what we're really doing. They were arguing from subjective basis. The reality is, cycling for transportation is a product."

"Oh, [cycling] was who I was. Yeah. Which is really interesting, because if anybody had told me that would be my lifestyle when I was in my twenties, I would say you're nuts."

"Just by being on the road on a bicycle, I'm advocating, being a role model. And knowing that my view is right, that I belong on the road. I deserve the same road space as an automobile user."

"To see the changes that are able to happen with a new local government, to me it was stunning to watch. From my view, from a distance, it's just been incredible to see what's possible."

"In those days, the real challenge was that the engineering fraternity felt that if people get out and ride, they'll gain confidence, they'll gain the skills that they need, and they won't want to build separated facilities. Intuitively, we all felt this was bullshit. We just didn't have the evidence to suggest otherwise."

"Getting the decision-makers on board — that’s probably the most important. The other one is the public. Encouraging them to cycle more, and accept cycling as a real mode of transportation....because the politicians aren’t going to act unless the public is on-side as well."