Tour of Britain

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As you all know the ToB is upon us and I'm lucky that it's coming to my town (Nottingham). Checked the calendar and it's my scheduled day off. Whilst looking on the website I noticed that you can volunteer for the tariff of a free goody bag.

Anyone helped out before? What's likely to be in my bag?

jgsi

Mouth wrote:

As you all know the ToB is upon us and I'm lucky that it's coming to my town (Nottingham). Checked the calendar and it's my scheduled day off. Whilst looking on the website I noticed that you can volunteer for the tariff of a free goody bag.

Anyone helped out before? What's likely to be in my bag?

Not a lot.. but it's a good thing to do!

mattshrops

T-shirt, dvd, malt loaf,and bs.
Lot of standing about for 10 mins "work"
More to the point if we the cyclists of this country wish to have high profile events staged on these shores we need to get of our @rses and help out. Do it and get to feel smug like me

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mattshrops wrote:

T-shirt, dvd, malt loaf,and bs.
Lot of standing about for 10 mins "work"
More to the point if we the cyclists of this country wish to have high profile events staged on these shores we need to get of our @rses and help out. Do it and get to feel smug like me

I want to go to the event anyway as long as my day off is cast iron I don't mind helping out a bit if possible. Wouldn't wanna miss too much just for a 10% Evans voucher or something though.

I agree with the point re high profile events.

Gizmodo

Mouth wrote:

Wouldn't wanna miss too much just for a 10% Evans voucher or something though.

That's what I'm worried about; I have volunteered because it said you weren't committing to anything yet. But the Stoke stage comes near my house and goes around my normal cycle route (there goes all my Strava segments). So I had planned a day off and could watch it go past, cut a big corner and watch it again somewhere else.

I'll just have to see what they want me to do.

Wirral_paul

Shouldnt you want to volunteer for the privilege of being a part of such an event, and to put something back into our sport? Sorry but seems wrong to me - to want to do it for what you're going to get in the way of goods given back to you in payment.

Just volunteer and enjoy the day - regardless of what you're given.

Edit: Pop a link up and maybe more of us will volunteer.

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http://www.tourofbritain.com/_ns_volunteer/

crossborderreiver

Take ear plugs. Loudspeakers play loud crap music all day. I was unfortunate enoughto man a crossing right beside the speakers and ended up with a banging headache. Be prepared to be ignored/abused by people who absolutley must get to the other side of the road after the barriers have closed. The goodie bag had an odd shaped t-shirt and a rubber wrist band in it.

Gizmodo

Well Stanley it hasn't got any better, I certainly won't be volunteering next year. They send through instructions saying "you have no rights at all over any member of the public" and "don't try and watch the race" - like anyone who volunteers is not there to watch the race!

When you get there anyone can volunteer on the day, no check on who you are, just fill in this contact form. Then, once signed on, I'm asked to sell programmes for £4 each. Ok so I thought crowd control, parking duties, telling people where the loos are - but selling programmes!

When they've gone past we end up putting crowd barriers in the back of a transit van - at least it's better than selling programmes. The "goodie" bag ain't too bad, no big deal, but no complaints either.