{"id":773365,"date":"2026-07-01T13:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773365\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:38:26","slug":"fraser-valley-canada-day-cycling-tour-trims-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773365\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser Valley Canada Day cycling tour trims back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Fraser Valley Canada Day cycling tour trims back<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 1:30 pm Tuesday, June 30, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Every year, the Lower Mainland Maple Leaf Populaire bike ride gets a little longer, adding one kilomtre for every year of the Canadian dream.<\/p>\n<p>On Canada Day, July 1, 100 cyclists will mark Canada\u2019s 159th birthday by riding the same number of kilometres on a route that begins and ends in Langley\u2019s Walnut Grove.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a scaled-down, members only version of the annual event, organized by volunteers from the B.C. Randonneurs Cycling Club.<\/p>\n<p>Randonneurs Cycling Club secretary Anna Bonga explained the event is being done as a club ride, and not as a public one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not running it in the format as it was run in the past,\u201d Bonga told the Langley Advance Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just got too onerous to run, and the volunteers were burnt out. It is open to any club members, and anyone can join the club [if they want to take part].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Registration, online at <a href=\"https:\/\/database.randonneurs.bc.ca\/registration\/member\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/database.randonneurs.bc.ca\/registration\/member<\/a> costs $20 for the annual membership, plus the event participation fee of $20 for a total of $40.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe may pick it up again in the future, but we\u2019re taking a bit of a rest,\u201d Bonga added.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 2000 with 70 riders, the long0pditance Maple Leaf grew over the years, <a href=\"https:\/\/langleyadvancetimes.com\/2023\/06\/29\/a-july-1-langley-cycling-event-is-as-long-as-canada-is-old\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with as many as 400 signing up.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, the numbers of riders was capped at 100.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the usual Canada Day Populaire in the past, \u201cthis is an introductory ride to randonneuring which is long-distance unsupported endurance cycling,\u201d the club web page notes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRiders are responsible for their own food\/water supply arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Described on the club website as a \u201cnon-competition, social ride in the scenic Fraser Valley around Derby Reach, Matsqui Village, Yarrow and Birchwood Dairy in Abbotsford.<\/p>\n<p>As before, it will start in at the Walnut Grove community center parking lot but the finish has been moved to a nearby coffee shop.<\/p>\n<p>In the cycling world, randonneuring is a non-competitive long-distance cycling discipline which originates from the French verb randonner, which means \u201cto take a long ramble, hike, or tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Riders cannot receive support, except at the designated control points, so each rider must be prepared for mechanical mishaps and changes in weather.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.langleyadvancetimes.com\/entertainment\/155-km-for-155-years-of-canada\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 155 km for 155 years of Canada<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fraser Valley Canada Day cycling tour trims back Published 1:30 pm Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Every year, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-773365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}