Citizens for Safe Cycling (CfSC) established the Bruce Timmermans Fund for Childhood Cycling Education in 1998 to support child cycling skills education and promote cycling to children and their parents in Ottawa. It will continue Bruce's mission: to help ordinary people improve their cycling skills and to enjoy cycling more.

Help bring Bruce's love of cycling to a new generation of cyclists. Please support this work with your donation.

Please mail donations to "Citizens for Safe Cycling (Bruce Timmermans Fund)"
Citizens for Safe Cycling
Box 248, Station B, Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 6C4.

Who was Bruce Timmermans ?

Bruce Timmermans was "Mr. Bicycle" to thousands of people in Ottawa-Carleton: a top cyclist who helped others to enjoy cycling as much as he did, whether for recreation or transportation. Directly because of his work, Ottawa is now implementing cycling network plans and supports programs encouraging cycling and cycling safety. And that doesn't count all the people who now ride more safely and efficiently and fix their bikes more skillfully after being taught by Bruce.

As a pioneer,  trainer and examiner of nationally-certified defensive cycling instructors in the CAN-BIKE program, Bruce was one of Canada's top cyclists. He worked extensively to help ordinary people improve their cycling skills and to enjoy cycling more. Bruce shared his love of and knowledge of cycling with people through traffic cycling skills, bicycle mechanics and repairs, cold weather cycling and bicycle touring locally and abroad.

Bruce was a leader in many activities to promote better cycling in Ottawa. He was a member of the Intergovernmental Bicycle Committee which planned a regional cycling network years ahead of its time, in the early 1980s. In 1984 he helped found Citizens for Safe Cycling (CfSC) in response to the record number of cycling deaths that year. He helped CfSC establish the region's first education program aimed at young cyclists in 1985.

In 1989, Bruce became a founding member of the City of Ottawa Cycling Advisory Group. He was one of the major architects of the city's Comprehensive Cycling Plan and helped plan the city and regional cycling networks which are now being built.

Bruce was also a Board member of the Ottawa Bicycle Club for many years and a faithful volunteer for the annual Rideau Lakes Tour every year. He was also well-known for teaching cyclists basic and advanced bicycle maintenance through his courses through the Board of Education.

Tragically, Bruce died suddenly in 1998, well before his time.