Riding without paying.

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  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    For me a GPS map is essential, done too many events where someone has kindly switched the signs to give us a longer ride than the official route.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • dmclite-3.0
    dmclite-3.0 Posts: 845
    I think the bottom line is, don't be a tool, if you choose to ride a sportive, then have some integrity and pay your way.
    I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast...
  • Big Hairy Wallapers
    Big Hairy Wallapers Posts: 182
    Well I'm glad you've cleared that up.
    That will save anyone else from needing to have their own opinion.
    Class
  • dmclite-3.0
    dmclite-3.0 Posts: 845
    Big Hairy Wallapers wrote:
    Well I'm glad you've cleared that up.
    That will save anyone else from needing to have their own opinion.
    Class


    Calm down fella, you posed the question, I then read thru 7 pages of opinion and posted. If you dont want replies then don't feckin ask you ar$hole.
    I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast...
  • dwanes
    dwanes Posts: 954
    Big Hairy Wallapers wrote:
    Well I'm glad you've cleared that up.
    That will save anyone else from needing to have their own opinion.
    Class

    Well it has cleared it up because the answer of dmclite-3.0 is the Correct answer.
  • simonhead
    simonhead Posts: 1,399
    I agree with DMC as well, has he touched a nerve?
    Life isnt like a box of chocolates, its like a bag of pic n mix.
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    apreading wrote:
    Evans have addressed that recently - for the last few months they have example maps from last years ride on the website - with a caveat that it is subject to possible changes nearer the time.

    For some but not all. Fair enough there may be changes nearer the time. But you should at least know the general route you'll be taking.
  • RallyBiker
    RallyBiker Posts: 378
    dmclite-3.0 wrote:
    I think the bottom line is, don't be a tool, if you choose to ride a sportive, then have some integrity and pay your way.
    +1 sign0191.gif
  • issacforce
    issacforce Posts: 112
    Wot if the sportive takes place on the local rds u ride most days, why should u pay to ride them, as long as u dont use feedstations it is fine imo
  • zardoz
    zardoz Posts: 251
    issacforce wrote:
    Wot if the sportive takes place on the local rds u ride most days, why should u pay to ride them, as long as u dont use feedstations it is fine imo

    So ride on the roads just don't follow the course unless you have paid - see above about being a tool and having integrity.
    http://www.strava.com/athletes/1767978
  • gethinceri
    gethinceri Posts: 1,665
    I also found this frustrating with the Wales Ride It! But I sent an e-mail to Dean Stacey who explained that they had not finalised the route but then posted up a map about 1 month beforehand, I must say it was a little vague but enough for me to recce a couple of the climbs.
    The level of communication, route selection, service and value for money far exceeded frustration regarding availability of route information. I believe they post up the previous year's route when entry opens if the event has previously been run.
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Plus 4 for not being a tool and having some integrity ...
  • issacforce
    issacforce Posts: 112
    Not another tool, imnot paying to rides roads that i ride all year round, done it once rode exactly same roads i ride reguarly,no new ones orroads idid not know, if i go to other parts of country to do sportives,i pay 4 those as they are different and dont know my way around.
  • simonhead
    simonhead Posts: 1,399
    issacforce wrote:
    Not another tool, imnot paying to rides roads that i ride all year round, done it once rode exactly same roads i ride reguarly,no new ones orroads idid not know, if i go to other parts of country to do sportives,i pay 4 those as they are different and dont know my way around.
    Exactly the same route at the same time from the same start /finish?
    Life isnt like a box of chocolates, its like a bag of pic n mix.
  • issacforce
    issacforce Posts: 112
    Majority of the roads, the other ones i ride as well, anyway i gave my opinion thats how it is,dont like it tough,ill continue to do what i do,plus ibet there are hundreds doing it.
  • Wirral_paul
    Wirral_paul Posts: 2,476
    issacforce wrote:
    Majority of the roads, the other ones i ride as well, anyway i gave my opinion thats how it is,dont like it tough,ill continue to do what i do,plus ibet there are hundreds doing it.

    Well thats fine then - obviously you ride the exact same route as the sportive takes for the whole route every week!!

    There's a world of difference between riding a few miles on the same route by chance, and riding the whole 50 to 100+ mile route (which anyone with sense would take as read that this thread was about!) so dont be so pedantic.
  • apreading
    apreading Posts: 4,535
    I actually found that one of my local loops, that I often do follows the exact same route as a local Audax for about 20 miles - but IN REVERSE...!

    Sometimes if you find a good set of roads, others find it too and plan a Sportive on it.

    I am sure your local loop wouldnt stick to the Sportive route exactly for the entire length though - that would be too much of a coincidence.

    I would probably stay away if I knew there was a sportive running anyway though - find less crowded roads as if you are local you would have plenty of alternatives.

    Just dont use their parking, facilities or anything else though otherwise you are just a git.
  • issacforce
    issacforce Posts: 112
    Obviously its not all the same roads in one go, but like i said im not paying to ride roads i normally ride, plus i never use thier facilities, i know were all the local cafes are
  • simonhead
    simonhead Posts: 1,399
    issacforce wrote:
    Obviously its not all the same roads in one go, but like i said im not paying to ride roads i normally ride, plus i never use thier facilities, i know were all the local cafes are

    There you go then, the argument is about people that ride the entire route at the same time as the ride, use the facilities ext.
    Life isnt like a box of chocolates, its like a bag of pic n mix.
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    apreading wrote:
    I actually found that one of my local loops, that I often do follows the exact same route as a local Audax for about 20 miles - but IN REVERSE...!
    That's usually my luck ... out for a solo ride - come across a sportive or even just a group of riders ... they're always going the other blummin way! No chance of a tow or chat :( Just smile and wave boys, smile and wave ... :roll:
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    I was chatting to a young lady on an MTB today who was out for a quiet ride around the bye ways of west cornwall and got surrounded by about 1000 other riders...
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    issacforce wrote:
    Zardoz, why should i use different route, the have invaded my back yard, not being a tool u nobber, i suppose u have never ridden 100 yards on aroad used by a sportive eh, i never use feed stations just local cafes,as normal, and anyway thety r public roads and every tax payer pays fpr them and i will ride were i like, if u dont like ittough tittie,

    Wow, someone gives a perfectly reasonable reply of just riding your normal route - however you want, and then you call him a 'nobber'. You really need to read what people are writing. Secondly you need to read what you are writing, at least try to write in understandable English.
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    deanstacey wrote:
    Mark.
    About 15 new events next year so we will hopefully get to somewhere near you!

    Dean,
    I notice there are now some provisional 2014 dates on your site. I assume these do not include the 15 new events you are talking about, as they seem to be mostly the same ones as 2013?

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