Hey, I’m new to the forum and I’m really surprised about the ideas some riders have.
I’m doing brevets since 1999, have done PBP twice (the route is signed, no bag-drops), BMB (the route is marked with arrows on the ground, bag-drops), RockyMountains (route-sheet) and VanIsle (route sheet, bag-drops) and almost 60 brevets but it never came to me to ask organizers for full service.
I’m registered and hope I can finish LEL on my own as this is a new distance for me but I’m pretty sure I will try to.
This is an audax / randonneur event. You should try to ride it self-sufficiently. What, if you could let your canopy at a control and two controls later you would like to have it to protect you from the rain? Are you then going to call the control to ask them to bring it to you?
As marcusjb and Roland already said: It’s all about randonneuring spirit.
Cheers
Mike