Cycle Derby

Kieran_Burns

Ouch!

Has anyone seen the prices for this?

http://www.cyclederbysportive.co.uk/

£35 for the middle and long rides.... which is a shame as the route looks like a nice one.

DeVlaeminck

Going rate for big events now I suppose, if they can get 2k entries then I'd probably do it, if it's a few hundred then no point shelling out for what would be a club run on roads I ride all the time - I may end up accidentally doing a bit of the route in the day. Not convinced starting and finishing in the city centre will work but time will tell.

Kieran_Burns

Looking at the site it says that they are expecting about 200 people to do the 160Km course. I'm only paying £14 for the Notts sportive which had 5 times that number last year (admittedly I did the stupidly early booking option to get the best price)

DeVlaeminck

I disn't see that but then again the website plays up on this ipad - possibly the only one worse than this forum for functionality but at least Bike Radar can blame the adverts.

R0B75

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Ouch!

Has anyone seen the prices for this?

http://www.cyclederbysportive.co.uk/

£35 for the middle and long rides.... which is a shame as the route looks like a nice one.

Ouch indeed. Ridiculous price. Most Sportives are priced between £20 and £30, only the Wiggle ones or the closed road or charity specific ones tend to be higher. I'm not paying that kind of money to ride on roads I ride for free. If the council (effectively the organisers) want me to chip in for the cost of the Velodrome, I will, when I use it! :roll:

DeVlaeminck

The prices for the shorter rides look worse - £25 for 40k round the city!

As I say I think £35 for a big time event would be OK, but yeah they probably should be trying to grow the event rather than jumping straight in and thinking they've got the next Dragon Ride or Fred Whitton. The company they are working with comes from a background of kids holiday sports camps - not a group of cyclists looking to make a business out of their passion. I think it shows a bit in the marketing - ie pictures of kids in t-shirts.

Kieran_Burns

It's kind of frustrating as you want to help promote cycling in the City, but this is just too expensive

R0B75

Looks like they have amended the price to guilt you into raising money for charity. Still more than I'd want to pay. Probably not the right thing to do but I'll probably just ride the route on the day for free and chuck a tenner or so to Macmillan.

DeVlaeminck

Does anyone else find their website veeeeerrrry slow? Maybe it just doesn't work with an ipad?

R0B75

Works fine for me on PC in Chrome.

R0B75

The sportive is now priced £28 if you choose the Macmillan option, which is more reasonable. Doesn't seem like such a rip off now. I don't mind trying to help raise a bit of money so might well sign up for the 100 miler.