2023 ottawa Season

Distance	Route	Starting time	Starting location
40 Populaire	Carleton Place Ottawa	Sat March 18 2023 10:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
60 Populaire	Osgoode Ottawa	Sat March 25 2023 10:00	Osgoode Community Centre, Osgoode
119 Populaire	Tatlock Ottawa	Sat April 1 2023 08:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
200 Brevet	Maberly Ottawa	Sat April 8 2023 07:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
90 Populaire	Maple Syrup and Dirt Ottawa	Sat April 15 2023 08:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
200 Brevet	Morrisburg Ottawa	Sat April 22 2023 07:00	Brewer Park
110 Populaire	Rockland Ottawa	Sat April 29 2023 08:00	NCC P7, Sir George-Etienne Cartier Parkway
300 Brevet	Buckshot Lake Ottawa	Sat May 6 2023 06:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
110 Populaire	Wakefield Ottawa	Sat May 13 2023 08:00	Bate Island Park (just off the Champlain Bridge)
400 Brevet	Westport-Parham Ottawa	Sat May 27 2023 05:00	Brewer Park
300 Brevet	DW Animalathon Ottawa	Sat June 3 2023 06:00	Comfort Inn, 222 Hearst Way
200 Brevet	DW Chenaux Ottawa	Sun June 4 2023 07:00	Comfort Inn, 222 Hearst Way
400 Brevet	DW Frontenac Ottawa	Tue June 6 2023 05:00	Comfort Inn, 222 Hearst Way
600 Brevet	DW Barry's Bay Ottawa	Thu June 8 2023 05:00	Comfort Inn, 222 Hearst Way
300 Brevet	Alexandria Ottawa	Sat June 10 2023 05:00	Brewer Park
600 Brevet	Kingston Ottawa	Sat June 17 2023 05:00	Britannia Beach at Greenview Ave, Ottawa
117 Populaire	Mississippi Ottawa	Sat June 24 2023 08:00	Cavanagh Community Park, Ashton
600 Brevet	Madawaska Ottawa	Sat July 8 2023 05:00	Ash Grove Inn, 42524 Combermere Rd, Barry's Bay, ON K0J 1B0
200 Brevet	Almonte Chenaux Ottawa	Sat July 15 2023 07:00	Almonte Curling Club, 160 Bridge St., Almonte, Ontario
400 Brevet	Foymount Ottawa	Sat July 22 2023 05:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
110 Populaire	Kemptville Ottawa	Sat July 29 2023 08:00	Park & Ride, Carp Rd at Westbrook Rd, Stittsville
70 Populaire	Gatineau Ottawa	Sat August 12 2023 08:00	Britannia Beach at Greenview Ave, Ottawa
600 Brevet	Cornwall Placid Ottawa	Sat August 19 2023 06:00	Tim Horton's, 1233 Brookdale Ave, Cornwall
200 Brevet	Deliverance Ottawa	Sat August 26 2023 07:00	Almonte Curling Club, 160 Bridge St., Almonte, Ontario
200 Brevet	AGM Chenaux Ottawa	Sat September 9 2023 07:00	Centrum Shopping Centre across from Holiday Inn 101 Kanata Ave., Kanata

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...