So do we need a proposal for the next AGM that AUK should work to encourage/promote a greater number of BRM calendar rides in 2010 in order to cope with this new rule?
I guess most organisers will become aware of this sooner or later and will have to make their rides BRM if they want to get the numbers.
Oddly enough, this was discussed at the last committee meeting (before ACP's latest news appeared.) In the past, there have been only a few BRM events in non-PBP years, mainly, I suspect, because that's the way particular organisers have done it. It is quite useful too for other ACP stuff, like their Brevet 5000, which is free, but no doubt funded by all your entered BRMs.
I don't think it's appropriate to go to the AGM, which would be too late in any case, as it is the choice of individual organisers and Sheila is going to encourage them to go for BRMs rather thsn BRs. It will be just as efective for riders to try now to get organisers of their favourite events to go for the additional recognition, given that these submissions have to be made much earlier.
The downsides are that such events will be a pound or so more expensive, which shouldn't bother many guys, and an interminable delay before the Brevet cards are returned, which probably will.