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About Team Escape

Ted Ritter - National Track Champion Founded in August 1989, Team Escape Velocity is a Vancouver, BC based cycling club committed to promoting and developing the sport of cycling in Canada. With membership ranging from novice Cat 5 riders to Canadian National Team members and North American champions, we pride ourselves in our community involvement, race organization, youth development, and leadership activities.

Our club members are active throughout the cycling community. Escape Velocity organizes and runs over 25 races per year, including the ever-popular Spring Series training races in March and the Tuesday Nighters at UBC, held every Tuesday night from May to September. Escape Velocity has also held the BC Classic Stage Race, an epic event and the largest club-hosted stage race in the history of cycling in BC.

In addition to hosting races, Escape Velocity team members occupy several executive and board positions within the Burnaby Velodrome, Cycling BC, the Canadian Cycling Association. Our club's committment to youth cycling and the future of the sport resulted in DEVO, the Escape Velocity youth team. The club has provided a supportive atmosphere and financial assistance to some of tomorrow's great cyclists and potential Olympians to grow and succeed.


Photos: Greg Descantes


More than anything, we love to ride and race our bicycles. And there's a good chance that one of us is named Dave. So if you see us out on the road in the red and white (or green and white), be sure to say hello.

2011 Board of Directors

  • Director: David Broemeling
  • Director: Tobin Copley
  • Director: Cam Finnigan
  • Director: Ben Forsyth
  • Director: Stuart Lynne
  • Director: Jason McCormick
  • Director: Gordon Ross
  • President: Dan Spry
  • Secretary: Joseph Tam
  • Treasurer: Mark Wan (pro tem)
  • Director: Mark Wan
Team Escape Velocity Cycling Club receives funding and support from the Government of British Columbia.