2019 ottawa Season

Distance	Route	Starting time	Starting location
40 Populaire	Carleton Place Ottawa	Sat March 23 2019 10:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
60 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat March 30 2019 10:00	Osgoode Community Centre, Osgoode
100 Populaire	Maple Syrup Ottawa	Sat April 6 2019 08:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
200 Brevet	Maberly Ottawa	Sat April 13 2019 07:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
117 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat April 20 2019 08:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
200 Brevet	Chenaux Ottawa	Sat April 27 2019 07:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
300 Brevet	Animalathon Ottawa	Sat May 4 2019 06:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
300 Brevet	Vennachar Ottawa	Sat May 11 2019 06:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
400 Brevet	Frontenac Ottawa	Sat May 25 2019 05:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
400 Brevet	Foymount Ottawa	Sat June 1 2019 05:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
600 Brevet	Kingston Ottawa	Sat June 8 2019 05:00	Britannia Beach at Greenview Ave, Ottawa
600 Brevet	Barrys Bay Ottawa	Sat June 15 2019 05:00	Britannia Beach at Greenview Ave, Ottawa
160 Populaire	Siberia Ottawa	Sat June 22 2019 08:00	Four Season's Park, Hardwood Lake
200 Brevet	Deliverance Ottawa	Sat June 29 2019 07:00	Almonte Curling Club, 182 Bridge St., Mississippi Mills
133 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat July 6 2019 08:00	Osgoode Community Centre, Osgoode
200 Brevet	South Lavant Ottawa	Sat July 13 2019 07:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
118 Populaire	Storyland Ottawa	Sat July 20 2019 08:00	Kinburn Community Centre, 5670 Carp Road, Kinburn
300 Brevet	Matawatchan Ottawa	Sat July 27 2019 06:00	Sword Inn, 146 Hastings St. N, Bancroft
200 Brevet	Elephant Lake Ottawa	Sun July 28 2019 06:00	Sword Inn, 146 Hastings St. N, Bancroft
200 Brevet	Burnstown Cafe Ottawa	Sat August 10 2019 07:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
106 Populaire	Into the Wilburness Ottawa	Sat September 7 2019 08:00	Conc Rd 6C Lanark, Middelville
110 Populaire	Wakefield Ottawa	Sat September 21 2019 08:00	Bate Island, Champlain Bridge, Ottawa
200 Brevet	Chenaux Ottawa	Sat September 28 2019 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...