2018 ottawa Season

Distance	Route	Starting time	Starting location
40 Populaire	Carleton Place Ottawa	Sat March 24 2018 09:00	Cavanagh Community Centre, Ashton
60 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat March 31 2018 09:00	Osgoode Community Centre, Osgoode
90 Populaire	Maple Syrup and Dirt Ottawa	Sat April 7 2018 08:00	Cavanagh Community Centre, Ashton
117 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat April 14 2018 09:00	Cavanagh Community Centre, Ashton
200 Brevet	Chenaux Ottawa	Sat April 21 2018 07:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
119 Populaire	Tatlock Ottawa	Sat April 28 2018 07:00	Cavanagh Community Centre, Ashton
200 Brevet	South Lavant Ottawa	Sat May 5 2018 07:00	Cavanagh Community Centre, Ashton
300 Brevet	Animalathon Ottawa	Sat May 12 2018 06:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
133 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat May 26 2018 07:00	Osgoode Community Centre, Osgoode
200 Brevet	DW Chenaux Ottawa	Sat June 2 2018 07:00	Comfort Inn Ottawa West
300 Brevet	DW Vennachar Ottawa	Sun June 3 2018 06:00	Comfort Inn Ottawa West
400 Brevet	DW Athens Ottawa	Tue June 5 2018 05:00	Comfort Inn Ottawa West
600 Brevet	DW Barrys Bay Ottawa	Thu June 7 2018 05:00	Comfort Inn Ottawa West
67 Populaire	Alice Ottawa	Sat June 9 2018 08:00	Britannia Beach at Greenview Ave, Ottawa
106 Populaire	Into the Wilburness Ottawa	Sat June 16 2018 07:00	2058 Concession Road 6C, Middleville, ON (opp. Trinity UC)
600 Brevet	Kingston Ottawa	Sat June 23 2018 05:00	Britannia Beach at Greenview Ave, Ottawa
1000 Brevet	Coureur de Bois Ottawa	Sat June 30 2018 05:00	Hornet's Nest Soccer Field, Bearbrook Rd, Gloucester
110 Populaire	Kemptville Ottawa	Sat July 7 2018 07:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
200 Brevet	Newboro Ottawa	Sat July 14 2018 07:00	Cavanagh Community Centre, Ashton
300 Brevet	Alexandria Ottawa	Sat July 21 2018 06:00	Parking lot P7, Sir George Etienne Cartier Parkway
400 Brevet	Foymount Ottawa	Sat July 28 2018 05:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
600 Brevet	Placid Ottawa	Sat August 11 2018 05:00	Tim Horton's, 1233 Brookdale Ave, Cornwall, ON K6J
200 Brevet	Deliverance Ottawa	Sat August 18 2018 07:00	Almonte Arena, 182 Bridge St., Almonte, ON
110 Populaire	Wakefield Ottawa	Sat August 25 2018 08:00	Bate Island
117 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat September 8 2018 08:00	Cavanagh Community Centre, Ashton
118 Populaire	Storyland Ottawa	Sat September 15 2018 08:00	Community Centre, Carp Rd at Kinburn Side Rd, Kinburn
200 Brevet	Chenaux Ottawa	Sat September 29 2018 07:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville

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...