2023 huron Season

Distance	Route	Starting time	Starting location
200 Brevet	Big Bay Huron	Wed March 15 2023 08:00	Tim Horton's, 618 Gustavus St., Port Elgin, ON
200 Brevet	Tour de Essex Huron	Sat March 25 2023 08:00	Tim Horton's, 5 Amy Croft Dr., Windsor
200 Brevet	Kemble Rock Huron	Wed March 29 2023 08:00	Tim Horton's, 618 Gustavus St., Port Elgin, ON
300 Brevet	Refined Sons‘ Foolish Huron	Sat April 8 2023 07:00	Tim Horton's, 9919 Glendon, Dr., Komoka, ON
300 Brevet	Bowle Buster Huron	Wed April 12 2023 07:00	Tim Horton's, 618 Gustavus St., Port Elgin, ON
200 Brevet	Win-del Velodrome Huron	Sat April 15 2023 08:00	Tim Horton's, 123 Pioneer Dr., Kitchener
400 Brevet	Karen's Challenge Huron	Sat April 22 2023 06:00	McDonalds, 390 Maidstone Ave, Essex, ON
200 Brevet	Sandhills Huron	Sat April 22 2023 08:00	Tim Hortons, 585 Weber St N, Waterloo
400 Brevet	Creemore Classic Huron	Wed April 26 2023 06:00	Tim Horton's, 618 Gustavus St., Port Elgin, ON
600 Brevet	The Great Canada Bicycle Tour Huron	Sat May 6 2023 05:00	Great Western Park, Windsor, ON
300 Brevet	Nassagaweya Huron	Sat May 6 2023 05:00	Tim Hortons, 465 Phillip St, Waterloo
600 Brevet	March to the Marsh Huron	Wed May 10 2023 05:00	Tim Horton's, 618 Gustavus St., Port Elgin, ON
400 Brevet	Beaver Valley Huron	Sat May 13 2023 05:30	Tim Hortons, 465 Phillip St, Waterloo
600 Brevet	Ganaraska Forest Huron	Sat May 27 2023 04:00	Tim Hortons, 465 Phillip St, Waterloo
1000 Brevet	Lake of the Burning Plains Huron	Sat June 17 2023 04:00	The Inn of Waterloo 475 King St N, Waterloo
300 Brevet	Erie Oh Huron	Sat June 24 2023 07:00	Mac's Milk, 2055 Sandwich W,.Pkwy., Windsor, ON
400 Brevet	Fort to Fort Huron	Sat July 8 2023 05:00	Fort Maiden Rd., Amherstburg, ON
200 Brevet	Much Ado About Nothing Huron	Sat July 15 2023 07:00	Tim Horton's, Clark Rd., and Trafalger St., London, ON
400 Brevet	Carey's Carefree Cruise Huron	Sat July 22 2023 24:00	Tim Horton's 35400 Huron Rd., Goderich, ON.,
200 Brevet	South Bruce Huron	Sat July 29 2023 07:30	Tim Horton's, 618 Gustavus St., Port Elgin, ON.,
200 Brevet	Railway City Huron	Sat August 5 2023 08:00	Currah Rd / Edward St., St.Thomas, ON.,
300 Brevet	Ports and Points Huron	Sat September 16 2023 06:00	Tim Hortons, 685 Fischer-Hallman Rd, Kitchener
200 Brevet	Rando Rondeau Huron	Sat September 23 2023 08:00	McDonalds, 390 Maidstone Ave, Essex, ON
200 Brevet	Gravel Grinder Huron	Sat September 30 2023 07:00	Tim Hortons, 585 Weber St N, Waterloo
200 Brevet	Queen's Bush Huron	Sat October 7 2023 08:00	Tim Hortons, 585 Weber St N, Waterloo

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...