Pittsburgh Randonneurs

An Activity of the Western Pennsylvania Wheelmen

Randonneuring is a type of organised long distance bicycle riding, with rides typically covering between 100 and 1,200 kilometres (60-750 miles). A participant is known as a randonneur, and an event is a randonnée. The term brevet is used interchangeably with randonnée, although strictly speaking, a brevet is one specific type of event.
From Wikipedia article , 2008

Pittsburgh Randonneuring Schedule 2010

Date	Type	Distance	Route	Ride information
2009/04/03	ACP brevet	200k	Thrift Drug 200k	Information here
2009/06/19	ACP brevet	200k	TBD	Coming “soon”
2009/07/10	ACP brevet	300k	TBD	Coming “soon”
2009/07/31	ACP brevet	400k	TBD	Coming “soon”
2009/08/21	ACP brevet	200k	Pittsburgh - Cumberland	Coming “soon”
2009/08/22	ACP brevet	200k	Cumberland - Pittsburgh	Coming “soon”
2009/09/12	ACP brevet	200k	Fall Rally 200k	Coming “soon”

Other Rides of Interest to Randonneurs

Date	Type	Distance	Route	Ride information
2009/11/27		50 mile	Danny Chew’s Dirty Dozen	http://dannychew.com/dd.html

Several Key Points:

1) Given in 2010 all are brevets are sanctioned by the ACP, I encourage all riders to join Randonneurs USA (www.rusa.org).

2) If you are without a “club of reference” for RUSA events and live in or near Western Pennsylvania, I encourage you to join Western PA Wheelmen as your home randonneuring club. www.wpwbikeclub.org

3) For more information on randonneuring and brevets, see the Randonneurs USA website at www.rusa.org.

4) Note that ACP and RUSA continue to continue to clarify how riding in 2010 may impact US participation on Paris Brest Paris 2011. RUSA’s advise as of October 28 2009 is: “Finally, our advice to those aspiring to do PBP in 2011: Ride an SR series in 2010 if you can, or a part of one. It's good training and will provide a fitness baseline for 2010 upon which you can build on in 2011. Try not to stress out, just do your rides, have fun with them and relax. Or, as the French might say, "Gardez vôtre sang-froid". Watch http://www.rusa.org/announce.html if this topic is important to you.

5) The Fall Rally 200 km collocated with the WPW Fall Rally event, is operated as a separate event with separate registration to comply with RUSA regulations.

6) Just to keep things straight, RBAs are approved solely by RUSA, and Jim’s RBA responsibilities are separate from his WPW responsibilities. However, for Pittsburgh brevets to succeed, he’ll need close coordination with the WPW.

For More Information:

1) Pittsburgh RBA (Regional Brevet Administrator) is Jim Logan. Contact Jim at:
email: jimlogan@verizon.net

Phone: 412-580-8575

Address: 215 Lindenwood Dr

Pittsburgh, PA 15209

2) Pittsburgh Randonneurs (an activity of the WPW) has a Google mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pittsburgh-randos. We encourage you to sign up for it, as for 2009 it is the main mechanism we will use to broadcast information on Pittsburgh brevets to interested parties.

3) Randonneurs often write trip reports. To introduce Dan and Jim, you can find our reports at:

a. Dan Blumenfeld reports on many brevets and long rides at: http://randanneuring.blogspot.com/.

b. Jim Logan’s ride reports:

i. 2006 Dirty Dozen:

ii. 2007 Paris-Brest-Paris randonnée - ride report.

iii. 2009 Endless Mountains’s 1200 km – ride report