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  • JJ Bean Coffee Shop at the end of the August 2026 200

    Close Call on the August 200

    By BC Randonneurs

    At 41st and Ontario, Eric had exactly 10 minutes to the time limit….

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  • The view in Courtenay

    VI-1000 Pre-ride

    By Murray Tough

    Murray joins organizer Gord on a gorgeous pre-ride of the Vancouver Island 1000

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  • Birthday cake for Manfred

    Celebrating Manfred

    By Vanessa Cowley

    A shortened August Populaire to celebrate Manfred’s 85th

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  • Oliver Lake Rec site

    Not a Randonneur Event – BC Epic 1000 2026

    By Bob Goodison

    Its not a Randonneur event, but 1000km across southeast BC deserves inclusion.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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