2014 ottawa Season

Distance	Route	Starting time	Starting location
60 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat March 8 2014 09:00	Osgoode
60 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat March 15 2014 11:00	Ashton
117 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat March 22 2014 10:00	Ashton
133 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat March 29 2014 08:00	Osgoode
200 Brevet	Maberly Clockwise Ottawa	Sat April 5 2014 07:00	Ashton
110 Populaire	Kemptville Ottawa	Sat April 12 2014 09:00	Cheshire Cat
200 Brevet	Maberly Ottawa	Sat April 19 2014 07:00	Ashton
117 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat April 26 2014 08:00	Ashton
300 Brevet	Vennachar Ottawa	Sat May 3 2014 05:00	Kanata
300 Brevet	Animalathon Ottawa	Sat May 10 2014 05:00	Carp Rd Park & Ride
186 Populaire	Elphin Ottawa	Sat May 24 2014 08:00	Ashton
400 Brevet	Westport Ottawa	Sat May 31 2014 05:00	Kanata
200 Brevet	Burnstown Caf? (Devil Week) Ottawa	Sat June 7 2014 06:00	Comfort Inn Kanata
300 Brevet	Vennachar (Devil Week) Ottawa	Sun June 8 2014 05:00	Comfort Inn Kanata
400 Brevet	Westport (Devil Week) Ottawa	Tue June 10 2014 05:00	Comfort Inn Kanata
600 Brevet	Bancroft (Devil Week) Ottawa	Thu June 12 2014 05:00	Comfort Inn Kanata
186 Populaire	Elphin Ottawa	Sat June 21 2014 07:00	Ashton
166 Populaire	Bancroft Ottawa	Sat July 5 2014 09:00	Hardwood Lake
600 Brevet	Lake Placid Ottawa	Sat July 12 2014 05:00	Cornwall
186 Populaire	Elphin Ottawa	Sat July 19 2014 08:00	Ashton
1000 Brevet	Coureur de Bois Ottawa	Sat August 2 2014 05:00	Hornets Nest
117 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat September 20 2014 08:00	Ashton

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...