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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 […]

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  • Riding by the 9 O'Clock Gun, Stanley Park

    Coasts and Fjords 200 km

    By Murray Tough

    A grey spring day for a tour of Vancouver highlights

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  • Trace Team "Out of Wack!"

    Fleche Pacifique and Trace Pacifique

    By Gary Baker

    Time to start planning for the annual Fleche and Trace events

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  • Train against fields

    Lower Mainland Early Bird 200

    By Murray Tough

    It was a clear, calm…and crisp start

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  • Four happy cyclists

    LM Early Bird 200 km

    By Alex Troy

    Great route, great group of riders, would definitely ride again!

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  • Clean up crew

    Spring Social

    By Vanessa Cowley

    On Saturday, March 7, about 20 people or so, casseroles and home baking in hand, arrived at Mike and Anna’s front door to enjoy some good company and a few […]

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  • LM Populaire riders

    LM Pre-Season Populaire

    By Deirdre Arscott

    Riders enjoyed fantastic conditions on an early season 100 km Populaire

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  • Melissa riding her bike

    Remembering Melissa Haynes

    By Kim Anderson, Elizabeth Haynes, Jessie Haynes, Jocelyn Lyman, and Leslie Haynes

    Obituary by her sisters and friend

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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