Banjo
Fuelled with Jelly Babies
- Location
- South Wales
Why not , she will only charge you £400.
No wonder she is smiling all the time :-)
No wonder she is smiling all the time :-)
Ride 40 miles with Joanna Rowsell
- Thread starter Banjo
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Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
It is not on closed roads so you could just tag along foc. 
Profpointy
Legendary Member
tell you what, you can ride with me for £100
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
20 seconds?
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
Maybe she rides a Raleigh Twenty, to give everyone else a chance of keeping up for a mile or two.
Ok I'm sold. Send me the £100 and I'll ride with you.
Diggs
Veteran
- Location
- Billericay, Essex
Will ride for cake and coffee
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
I am feeling increasingly uncomfortable with these sort of events. The fee is £400 and it's being run by a charity called Action Medical Research. But I can't find anything that tells me how much of the £400 fee goes to cover the costs of the event, how much to Joanna Rowsell, how much to actually fund the charity's good works.
Now I would hope the answer is "a lot" goes to the good works. But I can't see anything that tells me this
Also, why are they using pictures of her at the top of Cragg Vale in Lancashire to promote a Surrey event?
Now I would hope the answer is "a lot" goes to the good works. But I can't see anything that tells me this
Also, why are they using pictures of her at the top of Cragg Vale in Lancashire to promote a Surrey event?
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
It would be the best 20 seconds she ever had
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
I have nothing against this in principle, I've done something similar myself, twice, with Jens Voigt. Important differences, though. Those rides were organised by a friend of the man himself and staffed by volunteers, the £100 fee pretty much all went to charity (the first year raised £10,000, the second £8200), and there were a maximum of 100 riders on each. Jens was no less generous with his time and each time has also brought a bag full of team kit, much of it custom and/or personalised, that was then auctioned on eBay to further aid the charities. Oh, and last year's ride was three days after he got the hour record, and he was still hurting.....
Suffice to say, I feel very happy to have stumped up the dosh and would unreservedly recommend it to anyone (Jens was hoping, with a bit more time on his hands, to make it bigger and even better). Whereas Ms Rowsell's ride unfortunately smacks of the all-too-common charity business model, with the emphasis on business.
Suffice to say, I feel very happy to have stumped up the dosh and would unreservedly recommend it to anyone (Jens was hoping, with a bit more time on his hands, to make it bigger and even better). Whereas Ms Rowsell's ride unfortunately smacks of the all-too-common charity business model, with the emphasis on business.
