I noticed quite a few of the waymarks around whilst out and about yesterday and today (and very professional they were too complete with little signs before the tricky turns).
'waymarks'? 'little signs'?
Martin, that is well 'andbag mate, bit too NuLabour, touch of the nanny state about if you ask me
Thing is, this works for a 100km. Even for a 100km, it's a lot of work to get important road signs organised throughout the route. What happens when it's a 200km, 300km etc How many signs go to make up a 600km? How does a sportive run a 600km? Do they? I've no idea. That's a lot fo signs.
The other thing is the connection to history, in the sense that 'all roads lead to Paris' syndrome. Audax has it's roots & origins in Europe does it not? [was it Italy even?] So AUK is part of a larger brotherhood [god that sounds a bit naff] of sister [even naffer] organisations throughout the world that have loose connections & affiliations , that enable riders from one country to ride a big event in another country providing that do an SR in their home country. One of the
only many things I enjoyed about PBP was this kind of melting pot of nationalites for the one big ride.
Maybe Sportive Uk, could also fulfil this kind of qualifying obligation, but if it does then it needs to get somebody to cover the length of Wales to post signposts so people can ride without a route sheet.
And the bit about not accepting bents and tandems. Well [loads shotgun] where did you read that? I can understand people getting 'most annoyed' with bents*, but a tandem is just a longer DF innit?
Happy days
[incidentally, I met a mate of yours from Sussex on the Kennet 100 yesterday, Irish gent, Alister? he seemed to know all you folks down there in Sussex]
* except the kids, they always seem to see the fun in it all