Jim Couper

Jim Couper (born December, 1944) is founder of Pedal, Canada's national cycling magazine.
He has written two travel books and was the first to drive the same vehicle to the ends of the world's most extreme roads.
In 1978 Couper, along with wife Lian and son Dylan, became the first to reach the ends of the world's most northerly road (Nordkapp, Norway) and most southerly road (Ushuaia, Argentina) in one vehicle, a Ford Econoline van. Their global expedition was sponsored by Ford, Goodyear, Hella, Dometic, KOA and other suppliers. Additional income came from writing columns for magazines and newspapers and from radio broadcasts.
In 1989, after slowly expanding Pedal from Niagara to Ontario, Couper sold the publication to Benjamin Sadavoy who gave it the national coverage it now enjoys.
Couper has written two guide books on British Columbia and co-edited a third.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Couper moved to Canada with his parents Florence and Archie, at the age of three, and grew up in Toronto where he graduated from Ryerson University after studying journalism. Following his global expedition, during which he also drove across Iran and Afghanistan to India, he moved to the Niagara area and earned a degree in psychology at
Brock University. With wife, son, and daughter Jillian he moved to Kelowna, British Columbia in 1992 and still resides there. He claims to be addicted to travel, has visited more than 80 countries, writes destination features and humor columns and says that therapy has not helped him overcome his habit.
Bibliography
* Discovering the Okanagan, Whitecap Books, Vancouver, 2004
* The Long and Winding Road: Discovering the Pleasure and Treasures of Highway 97, Heritage House, Victoria, 2006
* Touch the Flame (co-editor), Wood Lake Books, Lake Country, 2004

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