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  • Murray Tough on London Edinburgh London 2025

    London Edinburgh London

    By Murray Tough

    It’s Friday afternoon. LEL starts in just eight days. Our flight to London leaves tomorrow. I went for my last long ride and then started to disassemble my bike. The first thing I did was change gears to make removing the back wheel easy. That’s…

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  • Longtime webmaster Eric Fergusson

    Eric Fergusson, long-time webmaster, retires!

    By BC Randonneurs

    Thank you to Eric Fergusson from the Club

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  • Stephen Ciccarelli during Ripple Rock Blown Up 600

    Ripple Rock Blown Up 600

    By Stephen Ciccarelli

    How Steve Ciccarelli ended up visiting an emergency room

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  • Only the Good Die Young at the start of the 2026 Trace

    2026 Fleche and Trace

    By BC Randonneurs

    Teams gather for the start of the Fleche and Trace.

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  • Dara, Xiangzhou, Douglas, and Murray at the G'wsep gas station in Lytton

    Canyon des Lacs Clinton 1000

    By Dara Poon

    Leapfrogging each other over 1000 km

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  • Dara Poon at Alouette Lake South Beach

    Elfmerentocht 400

    By Dara Poon

    Dara’s pre-ride video explains the concept of the route and discusses some aspects of geography and history related to the eleven lakes on the circuit.

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  • New criteria option for the BC-12 Award

    By Eric Fergusson

    There are now two ways to qualify for the BC-12 Award. Option 1: A rider must complete 12 permanents or ACP sanctioned brevets (or flèche/trace) in a each of 12 consecutive months. The starting point can be in any month.[This is our current BC-12 criteria, and…

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  • Courtenay 200

    By Gary Baker

    What a ride, what a route! I have ridden literally dozens and dozens of different 200 km brevets and the Courtenay 200 rates as one of the very best routes I have ever done. I’m hard pressed to identify a 200 route I liked better.…

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  • Start of the 2001 Cache Creek 600

    Audax Japan — 20th Anniversary

    By Mike Hagen

    Warmest congratulations to Audax Japan on this important milestone. Back in June 2001, the BC Randonneurs played a part in the development of Audax Japan. An entourage of six representatives from Japan, including four riders, attended the Cache Creek 600. This event features prominently in…

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  • East Coast Renfrew

    By Bob Koen

    “If you aren’t living on the edge then you are taking up too much space”— Steven Hunt I seem to have gotten a reputation for living on the edge with respect to control closing times. Gary Sparks could tell some stories. It’s not that I…

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  • At the start of the brevet on August 9: Dave King with Chris Cullum, Andrew Rapier, Nigel Press, Paul van Wersch, and Dara Poon.

    Lillooet Swingset Loop

    By Andrew Hartline

    The Lillooet loop presents itself clearly to a Vancouver-area cyclist looking for interesting places to ride. It is a very obvious loop because its upper section, the Duffey Lake Road, is the only paved route north of Highway 7 from the Sea to Sky Corridor…

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  • Poco Grando 2025

    Poco Grando

    By Deirdre Arscott

    It was a perfect day on the PoCo Alouette 100k Grando (56k of gravel). Four riders went ahead and the other 11 stayed together for the entire ride. The two new riders among the larger group enjoyed the camaraderie and everyone enjoyed the beautiful scenery…

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  • 2025 Flèche Pacifique

    By Colin Fingler

    BC Randonneurs Annual Team Event Ride Dates: May 2–4, 2025 Design a route — build a team—join a team — come for brunch! There is still time to sign up for this unique competitive (sort of), FUN event — team entry deadline is Tuesday 22 April.…

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  • Take It Easy

    By Dave King

    Dave King rode the popular “Take It Easy” permanent on March 5. There’s some major construction on the route now. Riders might need to find alternate ways through. Here’s the scoop… [EF] Hi Eric, Control card attached. Alright…..route info. Well, the first I can think…

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  • Late Easy Spring Series

    By Étienne Hossack

    Lower Mainland’s Second 2025 Spring Brevet Series Ride Dates: May 17 – May 31 – June 14 – June 29 New for 2025 is the addition of a second Lower Mainland Spring Series of brevets. You might say a “Late Easy Spring Series”. Okay, but…

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  • Melting snow waterfall

    Shuswap Shorelines

    By Bob Goodison

    I had not really planned to ride it Thursday, but when I got up there was barely a trace of new snow and the forecast was dry for the rest of the day.

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  • sunrise

    Cove N Spit

    By Murray Tough

    This brevet was super cool, and check out these pumpkins

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