Cheaper by bike or not ?

[mjr]

I doubt they could run the event without liability insurance.
E-bikes of course are a bigger liability.

The Church of England is worth billions. They can afford to self-insure for small events like this. They also founded their own insurance company, now owned by a trust, but that was more to cover the cost of damaged buildings.

 

[Punkawallah]

...on the older and less abled.

Those who have had longer to accrue wealth at the expense of the poor and witless?

 

[Alex321]

Those who have had longer to accrue wealth at the expense of the poor and witless?

That doesn't mean it is likely they have done.

There are well off pensioners of course - I will be one when I actually retire, as is my wife. But there are many more who are not in that category. And even more so among the less abled.

 

[MontyVeda]

That doesn't mean it is likely they have done.

There are well off pensioners of course - I will be one when I actually retire, as is my wife. But there are many more who are not in that category. And even more so among the less abled.

yet somehow they can afford an e-bike and are able enough to ride it

 

[Alex321]

yet somehow they can afford an e-bike and are able enough to ride it

It might be the only way they can get around.

Which is the whole point of the people saying it might be discrimination against elderly or disabled people.

 

[MontyVeda]

It might be the only way they can get around.

Which is the whole point of the people saying it might be discrimination against elderly or disabled people.

wheelchairs and mobility scooters are more common forms of transport than e-bikes for those people, don't you think?

 

[Punkawallah]

wheelchairs and mobility scooters are more common forms of transport than e-bikes for those people, don't you think?

If they can afford an e-bike, they can afford the payment.

 

[mjr]

If they can afford an e-bike, they can afford the payment.

Are you sure? It could have been a gift to help them stay mobile. It could have been partly grant-funded. Who knows? Why should they pay more than someone on a high-priced team-issue carbon-fibre confection?

I'd be interested to know which ride had this pricing, to see if the organisers even tried to explain it. It seems unlikely to be the annual Historic Churches Trust one, as that's still six weeks in the future, and they don't have a fixed charge. Heck, they don't even have a charge for people doing the "ride" by car. (Yes, really, some deeply stupid county church trusts, including Cambridgeshire and some of its neighbours, now allow that.)

 

[MontyVeda]

I've no idea why people on e-bikes are expected to pay double that of those riding regular bikes to partake in a charity ride... but the assumption from some that those on e-bikes will be elderly or disabled is doubly baffling.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

If they can afford an e-bike, they can afford the payment.

That jump depends on how much they paid for the ebike.