2025 toronto Season

Distance	Route	Starting time	Starting location
25 Populaire	New Years Toronto	Wed January 1 2025 10:00	731 Eastern Avenue, Toronto (Leslieville)
60 Populaire	Rouge Ramble Toronto	Sat March 29 2025 10:00	731 Eastern Avenue, Toronto (Leslieville)
88 Populaire	Concord Bradford Toronto	Sat April 5 2025 09:00	Vaughan Centre Metro
110 Populaire	Uxbridge Ice Classic Toronto	Sat April 12 2025 09:00	Tim Hortons at 2890 Steeles Ave E (Steeles and Don Mills)
200 Brevet	Gentle Start Oakville Toronto	Sat April 19 2025 07:00	111 Cross Avenue, Oakville
120 Populaire	Gentle Start Toronto	Sat April 19 2025 07:00	111 Cross Avenue, Oakville
200 Brevet	Hills of Hockley Toronto	Sat May 3 2025 08:00	Vaughan Centre Metro
160 Populaire	Lakes and Vines Toronto	Sat May 24 2025 06:00	111 Cross Avenue, Oakville
300 Brevet	Lakes and Vines Toronto	Sat May 24 2025 06:00	111 Cross Avenue, Oakville
400 Brevet	Concord Collingwood Toronto	Sat May 31 2025 06:00	Vaughan Centre Metro
200 Brevet	Cruising for a Brewsing Toronto	Sat June 7 2025 07:30	Nottawasaga & Creemore Public School 240 Collingwood St. Creemore, ON
200 Brevet	Aldershot-Lake Erie Toronto	Sat June 14 2025 08:00	Aldershot GO North lot
600 Brevet	Tour of Southwestern Ontario Toronto	Sat June 28 2025 06:00	111 Cross Avenue, Oakville
300 Brevet	Bewdley Toronto	Sat July 5 2025 06:00	Rouge Hill GO, Scarborough
160 Populaire	Bewdley Toronto	Sat July 5 2025 06:00	Rouge Hill GO, Scarborough
200 Brevet	Scugog Circle Urban Start Toronto	Sat July 19 2025 07:00	731 Eastern Avenue, Toronto (Leslieville)
60 Populaire	Rouge Ramble Toronto	Sat August 2 2025 06:00	731 Eastern Avenue, Toronto (Leslieville)
400 Brevet	Mnjikaning Toronto	Sat August 2 2025 06:00	731 Eastern Avenue, Toronto (Leslieville)
600 Brevet	Grimbsy-Port Stanley-Guelph Toronto	Sat August 9 2025 06:00	Casablanca Service Centre, Grimsby
300 Brevet	Cannonball Toronto	Sat August 30 2025 06:00	Tim Hortons 94 Main St, Dundas
200 Brevet	Markham Woodville Toronto	Sat September 6 2025 08:00	Markham GO, 214 Main Street
120 Populaire	Six Nations Poplaire Toronto	Sat September 13 2025 08:00	111 Cross Avenue, Oakville
200 Brevet	Six Nations Toronto	Sat September 13 2025 08:00	111 Cross Avenue, Oakville
200 Brevet	Warmup Toronto	Sat September 20 2025 08:00	5250 Dundas West, near Kipling
100 Populaire	Warmup Populaire Toronto	Sat September 20 2025 08:00	5250 Dundas West, near Kipling
200 Brevet	Gentle Start (Glen Morris Edition) Toronto	Sat October 4 2025 07:00	111 Cross Ave, Oakville
200 Brevet	Niagara Ramble Toronto	Sat October 18 2025 08:00	Grimbsy

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

Nassagaweya, and Other Minor Calamities

By the time we reached the final ten kilometers, we were, to put it delicately, no longer in peak condition. It was 10 p.m. We’d been riding since six in the morning. Most of us had been up since four. I was sunburned, bruised, mildly concussed by heat, and radiating the unmistakable smell of someone who had eaten too many granola bars in a single day. And still, it felt good. Michel arrives at the final control in Waterloo. There’s a part of the route every ride in Waterloo seems to share, a stretch of road that tells you you’re almost home. For me, that’s the intersection of Katherine S...

Endless Flat 1200. My first grand brevet – By Michael Charland

Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/14401335647 RideWithGPS: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50530187 What? Endless Flat 1200 hosted by the Northern Virginia Randonneurs (NVR) is a grand brevet starting and ending in Richmond, Virginia and looping to and from Elizabeth City, North Carolina. As the name implies the route is very flat, but with the first roughly 600km going south it means a lot of headwinds. 2025 was the first year of the event. Why? I got lucky and was able to get a position in London-Edinburgh-London (LEL) which is 1,540km with 13,000m climbing. My longest ride befor...