2020 ottawa Season

Distance	Route	Starting time	Starting location
40 Populaire	Carleton Place Ottawa	Sat March 28 2020 10:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
60 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat April 4 2020 10:00	Osgoode Community Centre, Osgoode
90 Populaire	Maple Syrup and Dirt Ottawa	Sat April 18 2020 08:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
200 Brevet	Maberly Ottawa	Sat April 25 2020 07:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
200 Brevet	Merrickville Ottawa	Sat May 2 2020 07:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
110 Populaire	Kemptville Ottawa	Sat May 9 2020 08:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
133 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat May 23 2020 08:00	Osgoode Community Centre, Osgoode
300 Brevet	Vennachar Ottawa	Sat May 30 2020 06:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
300 Brevet	Animalathon Ottawa	Sat June 6 2020 05:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
186 Populaire	Elphin Ottawa	Sat June 13 2020 08:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
400 Brevet	Frontenac Ottawa	Sat June 20 2020 05:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
600 Brevet	Kingston Ottawa	Sat June 27 2020 05:00	Britannia Beach at Greenview Ave, Ottawa
1000 Brevet	Coureur de Bois Ottawa	Sat July 4 2020 05:00	Hornet's Nest, 1660 Bearbrook Road, Gloucester
200 Brevet	Newboro Ottawa	Sat July 11 2020 07:00	Cavanagh Community Centre, Ashton
400 Brevet	Foymount Ottawa	Sat July 25 2020 05:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
600 Brevet	Placid Ottawa	Sat August 8 2020 05:00	Tim Horton's, 1233 Brookdale Ave, Cornwall
200 Brevet	South Lavant Ottawa	Sat August 8 2020 07:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
300 Brevet	Buckshot Lake Ottawa	Sat August 15 2020 06:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
200 Brevet	Deliverance Ottawa	Sat September 5 2020 07:00	Almonte Curling Club, 160 Bridge St, Almonte, ON
200 Brevet	Chenaux Ottawa	Sat September 12 2020 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...