Getting away for a moment from the CC obsession with the price of the most expensive bikes and the fact that it's a bad thing.
I read that report. Well, sort of. I had to skim a lot It is unbelievably badly written and poorly structured. I'm really gobsmacked that they can release such a dreadful document.
Their fundamental beef is that the calendar is a bit of a buggers muddle, which is pretty true. It's a mishmash of the truly great, the generally good and the things that no one cares about. Individual riders' calendars are entirely random. Could it be improved? Undoubtedly. Does this document have a cogently argued alternative? No. Every now and again they come up with a sensible idea but they never have any reasoned argument.
It reads like the manifesto of an extremely earnest political party that knows that it doesn't have a hope in hell of gaining power so they can say what they want. "If elected we will clear the streets of crime using flocks of well trained weasels".
By the way I saw a bike for sale the other day that cost several thousand pounds! Wot a liberty.
