2017 ottawa Season

Distance	Route	Starting time	Starting location
40 Populaire	Carleton Place Ottawa	Sat March 4 2017 09:00	Ashton
60 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat March 11 2017 09:00	Osgoode
67 Populaire	Alice Ottawa	Sat March 18 2017 09:00	Britannia Park
110 Populaire	Rockland Ottawa	Sat March 25 2017 08:00	Sir George-Étienne Cartier Parkway - P7
100 Populaire	Maple Syrup Ottawa	Sat April 1 2017 08:00	Ashton
200 Brevet	Maberly Ottawa	Sat April 8 2017 07:00	Ashton
119 Populaire	Tatlock Ottawa	Sat April 15 2017 09:00	Ashton
200 Brevet	South Lavant Ottawa	Sat April 22 2017 07:00	Ashton
117 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat April 29 2017 07:00	Ashton
300 Brevet	Vennachar Ottawa	Sat May 6 2017 06:00	Stittsville
300 Brevet	Animalathon Ottawa	Sat May 13 2017 06:00	Stittsville
133 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat May 27 2017 07:00	Osgoode
400 Brevet	Westport Ottawa	Sat June 3 2017 05:00	Carleton University Parking Lot P-2
400 Brevet	Foymount Ottawa	Sat June 10 2017 05:00	Stittsville
600 Brevet	Kingston Ottawa	Sat June 17 2017 05:00	Britannia Park
600 Brevet	Placid Ottawa	Sat June 24 2017 05:00	Cornwall
1000 Brevet	Coureur de Bois Ottawa	Sat July 1 2017 05:00	Hornets Nest Soccer park
118 Populaire	Storyland Ottawa	Sat July 8 2017 07:00	Kinburn
119 Populaire	Tatlock Ottawa	Sat July 15 2017 07:00	Ashton
186 Populaire	Elphin Ottawa	Sat July 22 2017 07:00	Ashton
200 Brevet	Chenaux Ottawa	Sat July 29 2017 06:00	Stittsville
300 Brevet	Bancroft Ottawa	Sat August 12 2017 06:00	Bancroft
200 Brevet	Elephant Lake Ottawa	Sun August 13 2017 06:00	Bancroft
110 Populaire	Rockland Ottawa	Sat September 9 2017 08:00	Sir George-Étienne Cartier Parkway - P7
200 Brevet	Newboro Ottawa	Sat September 16 2017 07:00	Ashton
90 Populaire	Maple Syrup and Dirt Ottawa	Sat September 30 2017 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...