I'm not sure how I'd feel though if someone announced that they were thinking of riding an event I'd organised without registering because they'd been too late entering/couldn't find my details on the AUK web page.
Happy?
Sad?
Not bothered?
Irritated.
<Official Hat On>
a) 9.9.3. If you don't want to play by the rules, don't enter the game...
b) As has been discussed many times before, an Org
may have sized/arranged facilities en-route to meet prescribed numbers. Arbitary unknown +N's rocking up
on a whim may impact on genuine entrants.
Whilst for small scale events +N's may in real life have negliable effect, because facilities have some slack, when events start reaching fields of several hundred entrants +N's may tip things over the edge -
so don't go there...
</OHO>
I plan to be there health depending.
I do want to sign a few mates up but unsure if the organiser is taking registrations at this late point. If not we'll just do the ride anyway as a group for fun.
Then as suggested, the (polite) method is to
ask first...
As it happens, there's currently
8 7 spaces left at this point - when they've gone I'll shut up shop, and consequent requests may/may not get in depending on pre-notified DNS's...