Are they having a laugh ?

[Venod]

Look at the entry fee for this sportive, a ride you you could do yourself for nothing.

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/e...--Highlights-Of-Stage-One-2014-(June)#summary

 

[screenman]

It will be full quite quickly, so msybe they have priced it right. Not the type of thing I would pay for.

 

[ianrauk]

They probably throw in a free gel or banana.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Neverwasnevergonnabe membership fee.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Greed innit?

 

[midliferider]

Whatever happens to cycling for leisure, fun and purpose (commute or as a means of transport)....

 

[steve52]

ive done a couple of sportives at the £20 mark, and the were good fun and well organised, but the price is going up and up and the food and freebi bag are getting worse so ive stopped and gon back to rideing myself.(yes i know the freebi bags not really free )

 

[Flying Dodo]

I had noticed that as soon as they announced the TdF was going to Yorkshire, prices rocketed upwards, so a massive fee of £99 for a sportive, at least double the normal rate, actually seems par for the course. Sadly. But then again I wouldn't pay it.

 

[jayonabike]

Just turn up and ride it with everyone else. O.k you won't get your 'free gel/banana/stale slice of cake or a timing chip but who cares.

Last year the Chiltern 100 sportive started from Chesham not far from me. 3 of us rode over to near the start, rode the 70 mile route and rode home again making a nice 100 mile day in the saddle riding with all the other riders. We had our own food, garmin recorded everything, I even downloaded the route from their website!

 

[jayonabike]

Were you not worried that someone you knew might see you and think you are the sort to pay to enter a sportive?

No, we didn't have the stupid free number to stick on your bike frame either.

 

[screenman]

Well there are a lot of people happy to pay the money, so that makes people like me and maybe you mugs total muppets, call us what you want for not noticing a good chance to get into this idea and make some money from it. In the nineties I used to run the biggest reliability in Lincolnshire up to 70+ people back to my house for free food afterwards, if only I had known.

Something else, just because somebody else wants to spend their money on something you lot might not want to does not make them stupid. Rant over but I will be back, choices if you have money you have them, if you have no money then you have fewer.

 

[screenman]

Call that a rant?

Maybe not by your standards, I am trying to be nicer in 2014, struggling with it though.

 

[theclaud]

just because somebody else wants to spend their money on something you lot might not want to does not make them stupid.

Even if it's one of these?

 

[jayonabike]

Even if it's one of these?

My mates got one of them, ideal vehicle for him. Chuck his work tools in the back,room for 4 in the cab. What's not to like?

 

[screenman]

Even if it's one of these?

Just a tool, I do work for one of the main dealers and they have plenty of farmers who use them. Not a bad builders wagon as well if you drag a small plant trailer around etc.