Addiscombe Sportive, Sunday, June 5 2011

alanmalarkey

Join us for this moderately challenging mid-season event. A great way to consolidate your your developing fitness and form by cycling through the beautiful and quiet lanes of Surrey and West Sussex. We will provide you with a few testing climbs and a distance of about 135km (85 miles).

This offering is unbeatable! We will provide an enjoyable, well managed, safe and economical sportive.

Only £15 entry to include organisation of event, safety cover, BC insurance, signs, a tested route, marshalling as necessary, a feed station and parking, and it is all in a good cause, supporting the growth of competitive, tourist and leisure cycling in an under developed region of the Northern Andes in Peru.

http://www.addiscombe.org/addiscombe-sportive/

jibberjim

85 miles? So that would be 2 feed stations at least, or is the route a weird figure of 8 such that you can get away with just one that's visited twice? You should've gone for 79 miles then you could've got away with just the one...

phreak

I didn't pay much more than that to enter the Granfondo Pantani where you get to ride over the Mortirolo and Gavia. I'm afraid my eyes have been opened to what sportives should be like by doing some European ones, and UK rides won't be seeing much custom this year as a result.

It's a shame as this is near to home, but with more riders now having Garmins the whole route/timing thing isn't a big selling point, and I'd expect a lot of food for £15 You do get the potential for group riding but it's amazing how many UK sportives end up with you riding the majority of it in groups of 1-2.

Toks

Still load of places available for this one
So you can enter for the sportive which is on Sunday 5th June 2011

Enter/Update Entry Online https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?event_id=421
Entry List https://www.sientries.co.uk/list.php?event_id=421

So you should be able to enter and pay the very economical £15

clanton

At £15 I think that's pretty good value for a marshalled, sign posted route with feed stop, sag wagon etc. Most UK sportives are £25 these days.

Yes you could ride the route on your own - but that would be kind of missing the point of a sportive wouldn't it?

It is a nice opportunity to ride some of the Surrey Hills with a group of likeminded individuals and test yourself against them (not that a sportive is a race ;-) )

secretsqizz

phreak wrote:

I didn't pay much more than that to enter the Granfondo Pantani where you get to ride over the Mortirolo and Gavia. I'm afraid my eyes have been opened to what sportives should be like by doing some European ones, and UK rides won't be seeing much custom this year as a result.

It's a shame as this is near to home, but with more riders now having Garmins the whole route/timing thing isn't a big selling point, and I'd expect a lot of food for £15 You do get the potential for group riding but it's amazing how many UK sportives end up with you riding the majority of it in groups of 1-2.

You are right of course... but if you are a UK mamil who for some reason finds joining his local club a little beneath them for 'free' club runs,so the thought of riding in massed groups of 1's and 2's for as much as they would throw at a few skinny lattes, appeals.