What’s wrong with the world, if a couple of mates can’t organise a few people to get together for an epic ride?
Who would have thought that some gutter dweller would have forwarded our email that we had sent out to the Christchurch City and Greymouth District Councils. What would be the point of this? Maybe they could an event organiser that runs events for profit. In addition, they cannot understand non-profit words like “Fun, Camaraderie and Achievement”.
The money paid to participate in this ride is given straight back to the riders in goods. All of the jerseys feedbags that the riders receive are all designed to give a retro fell like the good old days. The whole point of the ride is to experience the same kind if emotion that Sir Edmund Hillary did when he “Knocked the Bugger Off”.
Now we are face with the prospect of having to comply with the same rules and regulations as profit driven event organisers.
The thing that really grabs me by the short and curlys is what is the difference between 30-40 people meeting at a predetermined time on a Sunday morning and riding from point A to point B and our event? Maybe its time that your Sunday bunch ride should submit a traffic plan and pay a STMS company unnecessary amounts of money to cone off the road just incase.
Or maybe it’s best to let common sense prevail.
