Fat bike ride from Quebec City to Windsor honouring Canada 150

There are dozens of ways to celebrate Canada's 150thbirthday this year. But hopping on a fat bike and cycling from Quebec City to Windsor in the middle of the winter might not be an obvious one.

But that's exactly what two men from Gatineauhave decided to do.Guy Rouleau andNicolas Berniquez-Villemaireare on the road, raising money and awareness for Kids Help Phone, as well asthe Human Chain Project. Rouleau hopes to set a Guinness World Record by getting people to hold hands along the same route they're cycling down.

That would amount to 1.25-million people from Quebec and Ontarioholding hands. For now though, they're focused on safely cycling across la belle province, before arriving in Ottawa.Berniquez-Villemairetold Robyn Bresnahan on Ottawa Morning that the duo was avoiding major highways.

"Actuallywe're taking what they call in Quebec the Cheminsdu Roy.So it's not the highway. We're following (route)138 in the province of Quebec. From Quebec (City) to Montreal and then we'll switch on the 148 which is also a medium route," he said. "Honestly, there's not a lot of cars on these routes right now. So it's actually the perfect route for a fat bike."

Berniquez-Villemaire said the biggest obstacle isn't traffic or even winter precipitation.

"It can snow, rain, it doesn't really matter. It's the wind," he said, adding that Thursday morning was particularly difficult."We had a50 km/hr wind right in front of us, so we were going seven or eight kilometres per hour But when we reached the border of the St. Lawrence River near the coast, all the houses and the trees covered the wind and we were able to ... make our 100 km (for the day)."