Uit het Canadese "Lakehead Wheelers Bicycle Club":
August 14, 1933: Torchy Peden Still Leading-Trans-Canada Bike Riders rest today in preparation for 75mile Track Grind. Forty weary bicycle riders approaching the end of a tour which has taken them from Montreal to Sault St. Marie and back to Toronto, rested today in preparation for a 75-mile grind around a board track before taking off on the next lap of their tour. From Toronto, the riders are to go to Kingston, Ottawa and then conclude the tour in Montreal Thursday night. The race has gone more than 76 hours in elapsed time, with Torchy Peden, Victoria Giant, leading the entire parade by nearly a minute. Freddy Ottevaire of Belgium is second.

Blijkbaar is de man van Belgische afkomst, zoals ik al dacht ... Wie weet er meer over hem?
Johnny