realistically your scenarios don't exist, because those who ECE a BP know that they have to stay within the time limits for a BR overall
The actual issue I believe is that if you are ECEing the 100, and you end up riding with a nice bunch, chatting etc... but they aren't eceing, they are just doing the 100, then you have a conflict of interest "Nah, we got plenty of time" "I need to be faster"
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ECE is what it is... it's not compulsory and if people prefer to have a chat and a long tea break, maybe they should not ECE and drive to the start instead, as most do, or cycle to the start without claiming points for it
Phil W's original mention of ECEs was that you get the avantage of company on the calendar event part;
My point was that, that company are working to a different overall time schedule.
Of the 2 rides I've ECE'ed, the first I was the only ECEer, and the rest were just out for a pootle in the rain.
I had to dingy any chance of company on the road, and in the café my time schedule difference was clear to see as I bounced the café.
The second time was the Tour of East Lothian after spending the previous day fighting into a brisk head wind (I had to ride very far west to go east...), I was slow, I was with the slower riders most of the day; I only got 20 mins at the finish before battering on while everyone else sat around and gabbed, as even though I knew it was an easy spin home and the wind was behind, I was getting close to the theoretical BR time limit of the BP and couldn't work on the basis that I'd pick up lots of time... As it turned out I did.
It certainly changes my experience of the more relaxed event to the point where the company that Phil W referred to, was lost on both occasions because my time schedule was overall different.
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