doonhaemer
Well-Known Member
- Location
- South of Scotland
I don't understand the apparent obsession with closed roads sportives. ( the likes of ride London excepted, i get that.). The closed roads events seems to attract riders in their thousands, often on unspectacular routes, and at great expense. Yet take the etape Caledonia; ride the route any weekend in the year and you can probably count the number of cars you encounter on your fingers, so why pay £80 or whatever it is these days to be crowded out with thousands of other bikes? Yes it's good to be in an event sometimes, but there are now loads of other sportives on great routes for less than half the entry fee. So what is attraction? can someone explain?
I have been in the crowd at big rugby games, or major velodrome events, and I understand the feeling of being involved in a big event; but then the event is big because the ones your'e watching are the top of the game, it means something. A closed road sportive is only a big event because it's a big event, there is no logic to it as i can see. It's not as if the distance or route is anything special, what is it?
I have been in the crowd at big rugby games, or major velodrome events, and I understand the feeling of being involved in a big event; but then the event is big because the ones your'e watching are the top of the game, it means something. A closed road sportive is only a big event because it's a big event, there is no logic to it as i can see. It's not as if the distance or route is anything special, what is it?