Long-Distance Cycling, at Your Own Pace

Long-distance cycling doesn’t have to be loud, fast, or competitive.

There is a particular pleasure in setting out early on a bicycle with a control card in your pocket and a very long way to go.

Randonneurs Ontario is a volunteer-run club that has organized brevets (non-competitive rides of 200 km and up) since 1983, across some of the best quiet roads in Ontario. There are time limits, but they are generous. The goal is not necessarily to be fast, but to keep going.

You might ride through farmland at sunrise, eat a butter tart in a small town cafe, fix a flat on the side of the road, and roll back in after dark wondering why the day felt both very long and strangely short.

If that sounds appealing, you’ll fit in here.