RideLondon-Surrey 100 (2015) Anyone?

[jefmcg]

Magazine just arrived. "dear entrant, we regret...."

sorry, but secretly "Yay!"

 

[Nomadski]

Do you have an invoice link under 'documents' on that page?
Doesn't say approved anywhere but think you are in

Woohoo! First time in 3 attempts have got in thru the ballot.

 

[beermonster]

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Woohoo! First time in 3 attempts have got in thru the ballot.

Told you so

 

[AndyWilliams]

Good luck

 

[jefmcg]

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Woohoo! First time in 3 attempts have got in thru the ballot.

I didn't look at magazine, dropped it in recycling bin

 

[Peteaud]

Magazine just arrived. "dear entrant, we regret...."

sorry, but secretly "Yay!"

Same here.

Glad its not only me.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I didn't look at magazine, dropped it in recycling bin

Don't you want to check out the training plans and nutrition advice? I'm presuming it's how to sit on a sofa, and which crisps work best with which dip to watch it on Telly...

 

[derrick]

Both of ours straight into recycling bin. What a complete waste of time and money,

 

[vickster]

Asked yes, but they can't force you, they are not police and have no legal powers to detain you nor prevent you from riding on the roads.

There are also lots of police along the route who do presumably

 

[derrick]

I think you'll find charities and especially small ones do not pay extortionate wages in any way, indeed many staff are volunteers

The staff may well be volunteers, but the top knobs running them are not.

 

[vickster]

My magazine arrived just now, but I paid months ago

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Both of ours straight into recycling bin. What a complete waste of time and money,

To be fair, they will have filled the magazine for adverts for the charities that are looking to 'sell' their spaces off to people who failed the ballot so if you were desperate to do it then the magazine would tell you how, and what you'd need to be doing to prepare. That actually makes more sense (as I presume the inside of both magazines is identical) when I got my 'congrats' one last year all the charity adverts seemed a bit pointless as I was already in.

 

[derrick]

And they really don't earn much compared to what most could do in the private sector given their qualifications and experience

We look after cars for a couple of charities, and the top knobs are running round in new BMWs or Mercs.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

We look after cars for a couple of charities, and the top knobs are running round in new BMWs or Mercs.

Presumably leased with tax paid. Perhaps consider how much money, staff etc those CEOs are responsible for. Charities aren't funded by the government / taxpayer, better to turn your ire to the senior incompetents in the NHS, Social services, armed forces, politicians etc who are

Probably one for the Society & Culture bit of the forum. The morality of the various charities, or choosing to ride for a charity at all isn't really what this chat is about, is it.

 

[vickster]

Fair enough, posts deleted. Maybe the initial ones should too, a case of sour grapes perhaps?