Why do you persist in this drivel?
This drivel? You mean striving for equality in an unequal world?
Next you will be going on about how football crowds are mainly men who wear nylon shirts.
Not really as I don't have enough information or experience to give that view. I will however say that I am very pleased to see the recent news reports about the various football clubs providing womens hygiene products for free in the toilets at football grounds, so as to help combat period poverty. I appreciate women and girls are a minority in the audience at such events, but simple measures like this are very welcome.
The events are what they are and will attract people of a particular mind set. I have just ridden the HellFire 400km - this is a really hard event with no toilet facilities on route and the food on offer is limited by the fact you are in Scotland and if you do not eat meat pies there is not much else on offer. Well The Brown's rode the tandem round and Mrs Brown managed just fine, there was a sporty girl in the lead group and two women from Aberdeen who I rolled in with at the end. Participation has nothing to do with any type of equality or diversity objectives set by the organiser, but the mind sets of the riders. It is good to see events where the victimised minority of unwashed while males feel at home.
The fact that you can refer to every single woman who rode, all 4 of them, kinda makes a nice point about how diverse Audax events aren't. I'm assuming there weren't just 8 riders in total.
I'm assuming that the event clearly advertises that there are no toilet facilities for 27 hours, and that the available food options are not vegetarian friendly?
I don't quite get why you think that men are a victimised minority here. Men dominate every aspect of UK life, out numbering women considerably in many fields. Of the boards of directors of FTSE 100 companies, there are more men named John, than women. You can try to claim victim hood, but the reality is just not supportive of this claim.
Are you worried that if more women start turning up to Audaxes, there won't be enough spaces for you to ride?
Just as it is the choice of the organiser (under the current rules) as to whether or not they offer a GPX file, and if so how they offer it (RWGPS or email attachment or on 3.5" floppy snail-mailed to entrants)
Yep. I do actually have a working 3.5" floppy drive, tho I've not had reason to use it recently...
It is a choice, and what this whole thread has been about, is making it easier to find events where the organiser has made that choice.
That said, if QG, or anyone else, believes that AUK should change it's rules to make provision of GPX compulsory, then perhaps they should consider bringing a resolution before the AGM. That would have better chances of being passed than the chances of "winning an argument on the internet"
I don't know where people are getting this idea from that I think a GPX should be compulsory.
I said:
suggest that AUK should make it recommended best practice that organisers should provide a quality GPX for their rides.
Not mandatory, just recommended as best practice, for organisers to follow or ignore as they see fit.
At this point I'm really tempted to propose a motion for the AUK AGM just out of spite.
QG: I, for one, am impressed that you have reduced the proponents of routesheets to arguments about them being a useful tool for risk assessment and planning, rather than a credible navigational option for 2019.
<ducks and runs>
I'm in awe at the arguments people have reached for to defend route sheets. It's taking a lot of will power not to pick each one apart individually. I particularly like the argument people have that having a printed route sheet makes it harder to get lost, and easier to find your way back on route when you get off route. I don't quite get how this works unless you also have a full map to reference.
But, as we have established, I am young, naive, inexperienced, and talking bollocks, so what do I know.
J