What on earth are they doing with L25 per rider ? The website
mentions a recovery service if you decide to pack - but for L25 you
could just call a taxi to take you to the nearest train station
and have enough cash left over for a pub lunch and probably some beer
to drown your sorrows.
In uk.rec.cycling.moderated on 03 Mar 2020 16:41:46 +0000 (GMT)
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
What on earth are they doing with L25 per rider ? The website
mentions a recovery service if you decide to pack - but for L25 you
could just call a taxi to take you to the nearest train station
and have enough cash left over for a pub lunch and probably some beer
to drown your sorrows.
Usually it's backend organisation, people at the stops and supplies,
and sometimes very expensive but mandated police presence and traffic >management.
I assumed most of the £25 was supposed to go to the breast cancer charity.
Since I usually plan on missing the official start I just give the money >straight to the charity and turn up anyway, which the organisers would >probably rightly be a bit annoyed about if they knew.
Quoting Guy Gadboit <benc.may09@googlemail.com>:
I assumed most of the £25 was supposed to go to the breast cancer charity.
I fear one is meant to assume that, but it doesn't. It goes to the event company, who are not AFAIK a non-profit. Hence, I think the answer to
"what do they do with the £25" is partially "trouser it".
Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@gmail.com> wrote:
Usually it's backend organisation, people at the stops and supplies,I haven't ever been on an event like this. Do you get a "free"
lunch then ?
Quoting Guy Gadboit <benc.may09@googlemail.com>:
Since I usually plan on missing the official start I just give the money >>straight to the charity and turn up anyway, which the organisers would >>probably rightly be a bit annoyed about if they knew.
Seems sensible, especially since you don't have to agree to their damnfool >rules.
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