Roadies from British Columbia are bent on making the area, with its legendary skiing and mountain biking, a world-class destination for road biking, too. There's just the cost - $75 million - that would be needed to fund all the road improvements, construction of "missing links" in places like Kettle Valley and Vancouver, and a purse for some decent marketing. Advocates defend the idea by saying that similar efforts in Oregon and Quebec net those areas hundreds of millions in cycling tourism dollars each year. [Pique]
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