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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 15 > The story behind the Tour des Chutes

The story behind the Tour des Chutes

By Heather Clark / The Bulletin
July 15, 2008

Before he was the first kid on the block with a Peugeot, before a long career of bike racing, before wrenching in a bike shop and later owning one, and long before the cancer, Gary Bonacker was a 12-year-old kid with a magnifying glass and a British bicycling magazine.

Using the magnifying glass....

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