Tom Morris, wearing the Victoria Wheelers club colours, was one of the greatest cyclists from a city that has produced its share of them. He emerged from the Island to represent Canada in cycling at the Summer Olympics in Munich,1972 and Montreal,1976. Tom won three Canadian national titles and represented Canada at two Olympics, two Commonwealth Games (Edinburgh in 1970 and Christchurch in 1974), two Pan-American Games and every world championship between 1969 and 1976. He was voted Victoria Male Athlete of the Year for 1972. As a sign of Tom's steely determination, at age 32, he set himself the goal of cycling 7000 miles in six months to prepare himself for the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. He met that goal, and then won four of six selection races to assure his spot as Captain on the Canadian team. After his cycling career, Tom competed twice in Ironman Hawaii and once in Ironman New Zealand where he won his age group and placed 18th overall.

"Torchy" Peden was one of the greatest cyclists of his era and in the 1930's CCM presented him with a gold-plated bicycle that he rode in special exhibitions. He was the world champion long-distance cyclist in 1934 and at the height of his career he earned as much as $50,000 a year - a huge sum during the depths of the great Depression. "Torchy" - so named by a 1927 columnist who described the red headed youngster as the "flame haired Victoria youth [who] led the pack like a torch" - was a tireless cyclist who missed winning at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics because of three tire punctures and food poisoning. He turned pro in 1930 and finished 145 of 148 races, winning 37 of them. As well, along with his brother Doug, he was a formidable force on the grueling six-day cycling circuit that the two dominated for years.