Presents:

The 2022 French Canada Tandem Tour

August 13th through August 21st

The tour package includes:
Seven (7) days of riding
Eight (8) nights lodging
Six (6) dinners
Six (6) breakfasts
Five (5) afternoon 'Happy Hour' get-togethers
Maps and cue sheets
Baggage transfers

The tour will be limited to eight (8) couples on tandems.

Total cost per Couple is $4100

Registration and Waiver forms

The 2022 French Canada Tandem Tour

Join us for a weeklong tandem tour in French Canada, with its spectacular people, foods, and traditions. Ride your tandem in Montreregie and the Eastern Townships, south and east of Montreal. Enjoy the cultural and architectural heritage, riding through hamlets and villages considered the most beautiful in Quebec.

This is a fun tour with lots to see and tandem friendly rides. Mostly flat to rolling riding on quiet country roads. Tour old forts, visit an old cidery and ride past apple orchards. Visit a duck farm and an art glass studio. Come on north and enjoy. Bon Voyage!

Arrival Day in St. Jean sur Richelieu, Quebec

Enjoy this very nice and beautifully decorated Auberge Harris for our arrival day and our first day of tandeming. We are located across the street from the Richelieu River on the outskirts of the city of St Jean sur Richelieu. We are only 40 minutes past the US/Canada border on Aut 15 (I87). Come early and take a drive into old Montreal, 45 minutes away by car.
We will have a Happy Hour this evening followed by a group dinner.

Day 1 Sunday: St Jean sur Richelieu to Knowlton
Rides of 50, 52 or 57 miles

Most of this ride is through flat countryside, a rail-trail is available for about half the ride.
Cross a covered bridge while following the river road. The route takes you through Bromont with its Chocolate Museum and many fine lunch stops. It lets you visit a great winery, LÉON COURVILLE VIGNERON (285, chemin Brome) for tastings. Ride along quiet, winding river roads and cross another wooden covered bridge.
Arrive at Auberge Knowlton, a historic inn and our home for the next two days.
Happy Hour and group dinner.


Happy Hour and group dinner.

Day 2 Monday: Lac Brome, Ducks, Sutton, & East
Rides of 13 to 60 miles

With three loops and possible extensions, you can combine rides for morning and afternoon fun. Leave enough time to visit to Canard du Lac Brome, where duck is their specialty.
A short ride circles Lac Brome, with it's beautiful eastern shore. Another loop goes south and west to Sutton, a quiet little bike friendly village. A longer loop rides east and north, returning along Lac Brome.
Or take a rest day, walking historic Knowlton. Visit Knowlton's historic museum, which includes a fire tower, 1854 schoolhouse, and a WW1 Fokker aircraft!

Day 3 Tuesday: Knowlton to Stanbridge
Rides of 30 or 43 miles Visit wineries, cidreries etc along the route. Don't miss seeing the imposing twelve sided barn built by the Walbridge family just 2 miles from the rides end. Enjoy this barn, now a museum and national heritage site.
Tonight we stay at the Euro Spa

Happy Hour and group dinner

Day 4 Wednesday: Stanbridge to St. Marc sur Richelieu
Ride of 53 miles

This is an amazing day of riding on mostly flat country roads.

Happy hour and group dinner tonight at the Auberge Handfield

Day 5 Thursday: St Marc sur Richelieu
Rides of 25 to 64 miles

You to explore the countryside in the quiet area on the other side of the St. Lawrence River from Montreal. Easy terrain, lots of farms, small ferries to get across the Rue Richelieu. The long ride goes north to where the Richelieu meets the St. Lawrence. There you can also visit the Biosphere in Sorel.

Or take a day to realx in the pool, use the available Spa Services, just hang out and chill.

Dinner again.

Day 6 Friday: St Marc to St Jean
Rides of 32 to 44 miles

Down the Richelieu to St Marc. Some of the rides get up close and personal with the strange mountains that seem to pop up out of nowhere, the Monteregian hills were formed by magma in the earth's crust over a hot spot. These rocks are very hard and resisted the glaciers.

You can visit Chambly, home to some of the finest chocolates.

Day 7 Saturday: St. Jean, Chambly and Chocolate
Rides of 21 to 47 miles

Bike along the river roads, the canal bike path, or further west within sight of the Montreal skyline. Ride to Chambly, and stroll along its historic streets. Chambly is a 'must see' little town. Visit Fort Chambly, a magnificent French fortification located at the Richelieu River rapids.
See FG Chocolatiers in Chambly, where you can meet artisans transforming chocolate into something extraordinary. Of all the chocolate shops we have visited, they have the best tasting and best looking chocolates. And great Gelato too!