2012 ottawa Season

Distance	Route	Starting time	Starting location
60 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat March 24 2012 09:00	Osgoode
117 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat March 31 2012 09:00	Ashton
133 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sun April 8 2012 09:00	Osgoode
110 Populaire	Wakefield Ottawa	Sat April 14 2012 09:00	Bate Island
117 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat April 21 2012 09:00	Ashton
200 Brevet	Merrickville Ottawa	Sun April 29 2012 07:00	Cheshire Cat
110 Populaire	Kemptville Ottawa	Sat May 5 2012 08:00	Cheshire Cat
200 Brevet	Maberly Ottawa	Sat May 12 2012 07:00	Ashton
300 Brevet	Animalathon Ottawa	Sun May 27 2012 05:00	Cheshire Cat
152 Populaire	Storyland Ottawa	Sat June 2 2012 08:00	Cheshire Cat
133 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat June 9 2012 08:00	Osgoode
300 Brevet	Vennachar Ottawa	Sat June 16 2012 05:00	Cheshire Cat
160 Populaire	Bancroft Ottawa	Sat June 23 2012 09:00	Hardwood Lake
110 Populaire	Kemptville Ottawa	Sat June 30 2012 08:00	Cheshire Cat
400 Brevet	Westport Ottawa	Sat July 7 2012 05:00	Carleton U.
133 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat July 14 2012 08:00	Osgoode
600 Brevet	Kingston Ottawa	Sat July 21 2012 05:00	Britannia Bay
110 Populaire	Rockland Ottawa	Sat July 28 2012 08:00	Aviation Museum
1000 Brevet	Coureur de Bois Ottawa	Sat August 4 2012 05:00	Hornets Nest
117 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat August 11 2012 08:00	Ashton
200 Brevet	Wakefield Ottawa	Sun August 19 2012 06:00	Britannia Bay
133 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sun August 26 2012 08:00	Osgoode

About us

Randonneurs Ontario is an ultra-distance cycling club. We've been riding long distance rides from of Toronto and southern Ontario since 1982.

Randonneurs Ontario is affiliated with the Audax Club Parisien, the parent organization governing the qualification of riders wishing to participate in the 1200K Paris - Brest - Paris Randonnee. The club is also affiliated with Les Randonneurs Mondiaux, which provides recognition for brevets other than Paris - Brest - Paris that are longer than 1000K.

Recent member reports

The Great Canada Bicycle Tour 600km brevet ride report by Michael Charland

How not to Ride a Brevet – A Long-winded Tale About The Great Canadian Bicycle Ride Tour (GCBT) is a 600km bike ride in honour of the 140th anniversary of the original ride done done in 1883. For a great in-depth article see: https://blog.randonneursontario.ca/?p=1361. It was held on May 6th and 7th of 2023. The Day Before… I chose to ride from home to Burlington which was about 100km. Long term plans here are get use to riding consecutive long-distance rides. Ride went super smooth as I took it really, really easy. I road through Joe Sames Leisure Park which was really nice. I arrived at ar...

“As we remember it…” a conversation by Howard Rogers and Phil Mallette

Howard: My early recollection was that Jim Griffin and I went out for a meal to get ourselves stuffed up with lots of pasta and to get to the start pretty early. He returned to the hotel to prepare the bicycles at around about 11p.m. suppose, only to be told we couldn’t go into the courtyard where our bicycles were kept to get them ready. After 20 mtnutes of arguing we were contemplating all sorts of dastardly deeds to the poor bastard behind the desk. He didn’t seem to understand that it was exceedingly important for us to get our two bicycles and to get to the start of the event. He didn’t b...