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Randonneurs USA (RUSA) publishes a quarterly newsletter, American Randonneur, to keep members informed of RUSA activities, as well as, RM activities worldwide. Contact the Newsletter Editor for information regarding publication deadlines and advertising rates.

The following issues of American Randonneur are available online:

Volume 11, Issue No. 4: November 2008

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message from the President
2. Robinson, Vigoren, Win RUSA Board Seats
3. Ultra Randonneur Laureates Named
4. RUSA Awards 27 R-12 Medals
5. Super Randonneur Jersey Design Contest!
6. RUSA 10th Anniversary Rides
7. Dr. C’s Top 10 Tips for Completing Your R-12
8. To the randonneur, a century is so 100 miles ago
9. Ask Bill | A Look at RUSA’s Rules
10. IN THE BLOGS | Randonneurs Online
11. The Art of the Cue Sheet
12. Ghost Towns & Ghosts

Volume 11, Issue No. 3: August 2008

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message from the President
2. New Ultra Randonneur Recipients Named
3. RUSA By The Numbers....
4. RUSA Awards 10 R-12 Medals
5. Permanents News
6. New Permanent Route Owners
7. 10th Anniversary Flashback | Dave Jordan - Right Hand Man
8. Blazing Saddles
9. Shenandoah 1200K Results
10. Cascade 1240K
11. 2008 Cascade Results
12. Ask Bill | A Look at RUSA’s Rules
13. IN THE BLOGS | Randonneurs Online
14. Product Review | Supernova E3 vs. Schmidt Edelux
15. RUSA Board Member Candidates
16. Eric Vigoren
17. Edward Robinson
18. RBA Liaison Candidate
19. John Lee Ellis
20. A Look at Our Unique Routes

Volume 11, Issue No. 2: May 2008

1. Message from the President
2. Photo Contributions Sought For Photo Pool
3. RUSA’s Top 25 2007 Permanents
4. RUSA 10th Anniversary Medal Design Announced
5. RUSA Helping with Missing or Incomplete PBP Packets
6. RUSA Awards 52 R-12 Medals
7. Tea for Texas
8. Passings: William Bill Paradis
9. Spousal Alert! Randonneuring may be addictive
10. 2007 Treasurer’s Report
11. PBP SURVEY | a preliminary look
12. Taking It To The Streets: Team Flèche Pedalers
13. Who Says the World Isn’t Flat?
14. RBA | Susan Plonsky
15. Ask Bill | A look at RUSA’s rules
16. Q&A | Emily O’Brien
17. What goals motivate randonneurs?

Volume 11, Issue No. 1: February 2008

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message from the President
2. Celebrate RUSA’ s 10th Birthday!
3. 2007 Ultra Randonneur Recipients Named
4. Twenty-three hardy riders are the latest RUSA members to earn the R-12 award.
5. 2007 AMERICAN RANDONNEUR AWARD: Robert Fry
6. Passings: Mark Douglas “Allo” Sachnik, Franklin Clair Jensen
7. Permanents Coordinator puts out call for newcomers and new routes in 2008
8. Nine Texas riders—including five women—racked up 10,000 km or more in 2007
9. K Hounds: In their own words
10. Riding a Flèches-USA Team Event
11. What We Ride: ALEX MEADE’S PBP BIKE
12. PBP… R.I.P.?

Volume 10, Issue No. 4: November 2007

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message from the President
2. 42 Apply For Randonneur 5000 Award
3. 2008 Rules Changes Affect American Randonneur Challenge, Team Events
4. New Members Named To La Société Charly Miller
5. New RUSA Board Members Elected
6. Reflections & Projections
7. Robinson Named New Permanents Coordinator
8. RUSA Awards Eight R-12 Medals
9. Passings
10. Passings
11. Permanents News
12. RUSA people & places
13. PBP 2007 Participants: Take the RUSA survey!
14. Multiple 1200ks to be allowed in PBP Years
15. A Conversation with Bob Lepertel
16. Kitty Goursolle’s 2007 Glacier Ride
17. What We Ride: Vanilla Bike
18. PBP: An American Volunteer in Paris
19. PBP 07: The View from the Front
20. On Training, Bike, Clothing, Food
21. -PBP’07- Le Retour
22. Danger in Dingé
23. Introspective Confessions

Volume 10, Issue No. 2: May 2007

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message from the President
2. RUSA Wool Jerseys Now Available
3. Youngest 200K Finisher – How About 10!
4. New R-12 Laureates Named
5. 2006 Treasurer’s Report
6. Review: Bicycle Quarterly
7. What to Carry on PBP
8. French Phrases For Use During PBP
9. PBP Passport Advice
10. Driving Support at PBP
11. 5 Things You Should Know... About PBP

Volume 10, Issue No. 1: February 2007

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message From the President
2. Wise, Hamilton, France Elected To RUSA Board
3. Jersey Selected for PBP 07; Design Contest Drew A Dozen Entries
4. R-12 Madness Spreading
5. RUSA people & places
6. R-5000 Medalists Announced
7. 2006 American Randonneur Award: Bill Bryant
8. RBA Ride Preview: New York 600Ks: One 600 to qualify, one 600 to prepare for PBP
9. 10000 K
10. Jumping the Gun in Central Goldfields Shire
11. Permanents News
12. Beryl Burton’s ABCs of Cycling
13. A short history of Paris Brest Paris
14. The Museum of Cycling Madonna del Ghisallo, Italy
15. What We Ride: 1984 Mercian / “King of Merica” Model
16. Just how far is… 1200K?

Volume 9, Issue No. 4: November 2006

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message From the President
2. Letter to the Editor
3. Wise Honored For BMB
4. RUSA Seeking Design For PBP ‘07 Jersey
5. Riding for some football
6. RUSA people & places
7. RUSA Editorial Advisory Board Members Named
8. VanIsle 1200k Report
9. The Last Chance...
10. The Last Chance / Dance?
11. BMB: Notes of a First Timer
12. RUSA Board Member Candidates
13. The Randonnée & The Hero’s Journey
14. Oh Sheetz!!! In praise of the local convenience store
15. A Long Sleeve Sunscreen jersey for hot weather?
16. When Wheels Go Bad... The Ride To Destruction

Volume 9, Issue No. 3: August 2006

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message From the President
2. Members Win R-12, UltraRandonneur Awards
3. RUSA Store Stocks Adds New Items To Shelf
4. Ortlieb Offers Discount To RUSA Members
5. RUSA people & places
6. Bikes & Blogs
7. Andy Pruitt's Complete Medical Guide for Cyclists
8. Passings: Anne Marie McSweeney
9. A Year From Now—An Inside Look at PBP 07
10. Into the Valley of Wind and Water: Santa Cruz 2006 Fleche
11. Budgeting for Brevets
12. 2006 Ohio Randonneurs Flèche Side Story - West Team
13. 2006 Ohio Randonneurs Flèche Side Story — East Team
14. Mallorca Brevet Camp
15. Lessons Learned: Two first-time Super Randonneurs look back on their 2006 season
16. Morrisville 600K, June 3-4, 2006
17. My Sexy Randonneur Lifestyle
18. Oh, Fudge, A Fixed Gear...
19. Product Review: Garmin Edge 305

Volume 9, Issue No. 2: May 2006

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message From the President
2. Free 3M Scotchlite Tape Now Available To RUSA Members
3. 2005 RUSA Treasurer's Report
4. 2005 American Randonneur Award: Daryn Dodge
5. Road Bike Writer: AmR Interview
6. Rando-Guy: Mark Behning
7. Finally, a Good BMB
8. SIR 300K: March 25, 2006
9. NW Florida 400K
10. San Diego 300k Brevet Control Report
11. What We Ride: 2001 Dave Yates Super Randonneur
12. The Princeton 200k Brevet
13. Poetry Corner

Volume 9, Issue No. 1: February 2006

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message From the President
2. 3 Randonneuses Claim R-12 Award
3. RUSA Announces New R-5000 Recipients
4. Zmrhal, Ingle Elected To RUSA Board
5. Permanents Committee Report 2005
6. French Benefits
7. A Season Preview
8. —The Last Chance 2005—: More Riders, Less Weather
9. Tales of a Rookie Randonneuse
10. The New Northwest Florida 1000 Km
11. LEL 2005
12. Wow, Big Pack! Or, My First Brevet
13. What We Ride: Rivendell Romulus
14. Follow-Up: Confessions of A Butt-Cream Test Dummy

Volume 8, Issue No. 4: November 2005

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message From the President
2. New Recipients of Ultra Award Named
3. RUSA Wins RM's #1 Nation Ranking
4. Another Texan Earns R-12 Award
5. Q&A: Ken 'Iron Butt' Bonner
6. RUSA Board Member Candidates
7. RBA Liaison Candidates
8. What We Ride
9. BMB: An 'Improvisational Masterpiece'
10. Product Review: Lantiseptic Skin Protectant
11. 2005 GOLD RUSH RANDONNÉE REPORT
12. Unexpected Benefits
13. TROYES 1000K: Riding through the Champagne Region of France
14. Dirt Road Randonnée

Volume 8, Issue No. 3: August 2005

Entire issue in PDF format

1. Message From the President
2. Randonneur-5000 Regulations Modified
3. Online Randonneuring Lists Are Growing
4. Letter: Thanks To Local RBA
5. Driscoll Earns Ultra-Randonneur Award
6. The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles (book review)
7. Bob Breedlove: 1952-2005
8. Florida Motorist Gets 15 Years For Deaths of Brevet Riders
9. A beginner's brevet: Two newcomers to randonneuring describe their first full series
10. Arrgh! Blackbeard's Permanent: A How-To On Planning Your Own Route
11. The Role Of RBAs: A Balancing Act
12. The David Holmes Memorial 200km
13. A Fistful of Flats (or A Series of Unfortunate Events)
14. The Right Way Up Left Hand Canyon?
15. 400 Kilometers of Fun—or Not
16. Cascade 1200: 4 Days of Peace, Love, and Cycling
17. Cascade 1200: Special Report: Sleepless in Seattle
18. Cascade 1200: Special Report: The Audax Atlanta Assault
19. In Praise of Volunteers

Volume 8, Issue No. 2: May 2005

1. Message From the President
2. Coast-to-Coast 1200km Award Announced
3. Driscoll Earns RUSA's First R-12 Award
4. RUSA Names New Webmaster, Black Hills RBA
5. RUSA Handbook Draws Worldwide Raves
6. Finding the Perfect Bicycle Seat, by Joshua Cohen PT, MS
7. 2004 Randonneur-5000 Laureates
8. A new spin on cycling: cool weather, ultra distances
9. Reflections on Retroreflectivity
10. RUSA Treasurer Report: 2004
11. The Houston 300K Brevet
12. Column: Off the Back

Volume 8, Issue No. 1: February 2005

1. Message From the President
2. Himschoot Earns First Ultra-Randonneur Award
3. Q & A with Bill Bryant
4. Permanents Committee Report 2004
5. Bicycle: The History (Book Review)
6. 2005 American Randonneur Award
7. Commitment or Show Me The Money!
8. Thinking about the Cascade 1200
9. Lone Star New Years Ride
10. Meet Me at the Control...

Volume 7, Issue No. 4: November 2004

1. Message From the President
2. Bike Review: A Heron Built to Fly Far
3. Letter From France: What a Difference a Year Makes
4. BMB By The Numbers
5. 2004 Boston-Montreal-Boston
6. Riding BMB with Todd & Christy
7. Ride Report: Des Moines to St. Paul—Free Route Permanent
8. Ride Report: Riding with Team Girlene
9. Ride Report: Hottest, coldest, windiest Last Chance yet?

Volume 7, Issue No. 2: May 2004

1. Message From the President
2. American Randonneur Challenge Announced
3. Special Celebration for 200,000th homologation of a BRM 200k
4. RUSA Mourns Loss Of Two Members
5. The Ride: A Story About Bill and Gus
6. A Randonneur Reunion
7. 2003 RM Country Classifications
8. Stepping Up!
9. Scooter Guy!
10. The Possum Pedal Permanent
11. All for One, One for All!
12. Team Fleche Wound: A Sprint To The Finish

Volume 7, Issue No. 1: February 2004

1. Message From the President
2. 2003 American Randonneur Award
3. The Competitive Side of Randonneuring
4. Stepping Up
5. RUSA Announces New Permanent Routes
6. PBP 2003 By the Birthdays
7. PBP 2003 Finishers By Region

Volume 6, Issue No. 4: November 2003

1. Note From the Prez
2. Pedaling, Pedaling, and Pedaling Some More
3. The Ride of My Life
4. Defending the Title
5. Married With Tandem
6. Sleepless in the Saddle
7. A New Ride on an Old Machine
8. No Shoes, No Shorts, No Ride?
9. Randonneurs Mondiaux Report
10. Paris-Brest-Paris Statistics, 2003
11. RUSA members' results for Paris-Brest-Paris, 2003, listed alphabetically

Volume 6, Issue No. 3: August 2003

1. Note From the Prez
2. PBP Memories
3. Things To Know Before You Go
4. Cold Wash, Warm Rinse, Tumble Dry
5. Never Throw in the Towel

Volume 6, Issue No. 2: May 2003

1. Note From the Prez
2. The PBP Timeline
3. The Florida RBA Takes a Final Bow
4. PBP Packing List
5. The Princeton, NJ 300k Brevet - April 12, 2003
6. Providing Support at PBP
7. Route Sheet for Support Vehicles
8. Letter from the RM President
9. Dreaming of PBP
10. A Randonneur Reunion

Volume 6, Issue No. 1: February 2003

1. Note From the Prez
2. In Memorium--Jim Konski
3. In Memorium-Yannis Varouchas
4. ACP Brevet Points for 2002
5. Getting Ready For PBP
6. American Randonneur Award--Dave Buzzee
7. Vintage Bicycle Quarterly
8. Choosing a PBP Start Time
9. Survey Says!

Volume 5, Issue No. 4: November/December 2002

1. Note From the Prez
2. Boston Montreal Boston 2002 Results
3. Around Three Swedish Lakes
4. A Formidible Canadian-American Challenge
5. Rocky Mountain 1200 K 2002 Results
6. The FiftyFirst Woman...
7. The Lighter Side of BMB
8. Former RBA Mike Rohacek Passes Away
9. RUSA 2002 Income and Expense Report

Volume 5, Issue No. 3: August 2002

1. Note From the Prez
2. Coming In From the Cold: The Boston 300K Brevet
3. Control Freaks
4. Best Wishes to Alan Johnson

Volume 5, Issue No. 2: May 2002

1. Note from the Prez
2. In Memoriam
3. The SLO 300k Brevet
4. The Main Adventure
5. What to Bring Along
6. Special Request

Volume 5, Issue No. 1: February 2002

1. Note from the Prez
2. RM Classement International 2001
3. Something about that BMB jersey...
4. Flatlander's Fiesta 200k Brevet
5. 600k on a new tandem
6. Entering the Gold Rush Randonnée Battle

Volume 4, Issue No. 4: November 2001

1. Note from the Prez
2. 2001 American Randonneur Award
3. How to measure the quality of a climb....
4. An American's Perspective of the LEL 1400k
5. RUSA Members; LEL 1400k Finishers
6. BMB Redux
7. BMB 2001 Results
8. The Quad Centuries..A Spiritual Adventure
9. The First Last Chance 1200k and Results
10. RM President's Letter #5

Volume 4, Issue No. 3: August 2001

1. Note from the Prez
2. Driving Home from the Brevet
3. The Hardest 400k
4. Gold Rush Memories
5. Gold Rush Randonnée Results
6. Gold Rush Randonnée Report

Volume 4, Issue No. 2: May 2001

1. Note from the Prez
2. Riding your First 600k
3. RM President's Letter #4
4. Meet RBA John Lee Ellis
5. Meet RBA Daryn Dodge
6. Meet RBA Chris Kostman
7. Meet RBA Dan Driscoll
8. Southern California 200k Report
9. Want to be an RBA?
10. Vélocio's Seven Commandments of Cycling
11. RM Rankings 2000
12. RM Chart 2000
13. La Société Charly Miller

Volume 4, Issue No. 1: February 2001

1. Note from the Prez
2. RUSA Medals Awarded
3. RM President's Letter #3
4. Meet RBA Johnny Bertrand
5. Meet RBA Jim Solanick
6. Meet RBA Alan Johnson
7. London-Edinburgh-London 1997
8. Audax Riding in France
9. RUSA 2000 Financial Report
10. Perth-Albany-Perth 2000
11. Perth-Albany-Perth 2000 Results
12. Riding Your First 200k Brevet
13. Super Brevet Scandinavia 1200k

Volume 3, Issue No. 4: November 2000

1. Note from the Prez
2. Letter to the Editor
3. BMB The Civilized Way
4. The Cure for 1200k Burnout
5. BMB 2000 Ride Report
6. Boston-Montréal-Boston 2000 Results
7. Rocky Mountain 1200k Results
8. AM-CAN 2000 Challenge Finishers

Volume 3, Issue No. 3: August 2000

1. Note from the Prez
2. Letters to the Editor
3. Welcome New Members!
4. Brevet Results
5. Nominee Profiles
6. The Fifth American

Volume 3, Issue No. 2: May 2000

1. Note from the Prez
2. Letter to the Editor
3. Bill Bryant Responds
4. Welcome New Members!
5. Treasurer's Report
6. RUSA Elections
7. RUSA Nomination Form
8. RM 1999 Rankings
9. RM 1999 Chart
10. The Buddy Bees
11. RM President's Letter #2
12. The State of RUSA

Volume 3, Issue No. 1: February 2000

1. Note from the Prez
2. Welcome New Members!
3. Randonneur Awards and Honors
4. Davis Bike Club 1000k Brevet
5. What's Going On Here?
6. Two Styles of Randonneuring
7. The CAN-AM Challenge
8. It was a Dark and Windy Night
9. Warming Up for My Second BMB

Volume 2, Issue No. 4: November 1999

1. Note from the Prez
2. La Premiere Feminine
3. Certainly, this was heaven...
4. Two for the Road
5. It's Not Over, 'Til It's Over
6. PBP Results
7. PBP DNF Rates
8. PBP STATS
9. Crewing for Scott Dickson
10. At The Front of the PBP 80 Hour Group
11. RUSA Constitution
12. RUSA Bylaws

Volume 2, Issue No. 3: August 1999

1. Note from the Prez
2. Members Going to PBP
3. Not Going to PBP?
4. International Super Randonneur
5. John Kling Obituary

Volume 2, Issue No. 2: May 1999

1. Letters
2. Travel Checklist
3. After PBP - Explore Paris
4. Travel News
5. 1200 KM Medals
6. Welcome New Members!
7. Paris-Brest-Paris Advice
8. Providing Support at PBP
9. PBP '95 Sag Route
10. The 90 Hour Start
11. RUSA Jersey
12. Thank You Terry!
13. PBP Bag Drop
14. My First PBP

Volume 2, Issue No. 1: February 1999

1. Wise Cracks
2. Paris-Brest-Paris Procedures
3. RUSA Souvenirs Items For Sale
4. Five Reasons to Take the 5 AM / 84 Hour PBP Start
5. PBP Contrôle Opening and Closing Times
6. Touring Cyclist Tries Randonneuring
7. How the Seattle International Randonneurs Organize a Flèche Event
8. Regional Brevet Administrators
9. Welcome New Members!
10. 1998 Florida Brevet Results
11. Off The Back ... The Euro

Volume 1, Issue No. 1: November 1998

1. President's Message
2. Wise Cracks
3. 1998 Brevet Results (57 K!)
4. Profile of Seattle International Randonneurs
5. My First Boston-Montreal-Boston
6. 1998 BMB Results (Link to BMB Site)
7. Second Davis Bike Club 600 KM
8. RUSA Welcomes Its First 300+ Members!

Volume 1, Issue No. 0: September 1998

The first issue of the RUSA newsletter is only available online. It is devoted to RUSA's founding and the events leading up to it. We apologize for this rather dry material. The goal is better understanding through full access to all official correspondence.

The first article is the public announcement which you may have already seen on the RANDON mailing list. The second article is an overview summarizing (hopefully fairly) the process up to now. The remaining articles are the actual correspondence in chronological order. The 1989 and 1997 material is for reference and hopefully provides some historical perspective.

1. Randonneurs USA Founded!
2. RUSA: Founding Details
3. ACP Letter to RBAs, September 1989
4. Letter to James Konski, January 1997
5. E-mail to RBAs, April 1998
6. Mailing to RBAs, April 1998
7. Registered Letter to James Konski, June 1998
8. Mailing to RBAs, August 1998
9. RBAs' Responses, September 1998
10. ACP Approves RUSA, September 1998