UPDATE 10pm/14 May
The registration page has been altered to remove the confusion. It applies ONLY to the 68km Challenge. If you want to enter the Road Race or the Family Fun Day, you should contact CSV or BV respectively. If you registered and paid $39 thinking you were entering the road race you should ask for your money back before Friday (or you’ll only get half back).
UPDATE 5pm/14 May
The wording on the registration page has changed but it’s still very confusing! Do you register on this page if you want to race? Where do you register for the Family Ride?
UPDATE 4pm 14/May:
I just got a phone call from John Trevorrow at Cycling Events Down Under. They have been commissioned by EastLink to manage the ride and take their fee from the entry fee.
Revised web pages (Event and registration) will be put up tomorrow. They acknowledge that they jumped the gun in putting info up unpolished, and you will see some changes, apparently. (hopefully)
There will be “separate” 65km rides. The first riders to leave will be the racers (license required), followed by “the rest”.
The cost is $39.
Covers:
Cycling Events DownUnder commission/running costs
Timing system
Insurance
Cancer Council donationThe Cancer Council donation component is estimated at $15-$25 depending on the level of subscription and other variable costs.
Write to Eastlink asking for a cheaper 65km ride!
The Eastlink tollway folks are having an open day on the 15th June 2008 featuring cycling and walking on the road prior to the official opening to cars. The registration page is confusing. It says that all riders in the 65km ride will be timed (this means having to carry a transponder, which will have to be distributed appropriately controlled, monitored, and returned at the end of the event at considerable expense). There seem to be two different 65km rides - one for normal folks who enter and pay $39 on that web site and the other for registered racing cyclists who will need to enter though Cyclesport Victoria. (Note: this event would exclude all non-CSV/UCI compliant vehicles recumbents, handcycles, MTB’s etc..)
The other is a free family fun ride of five, ten or 20 kilometres.
It seems to be a rather self-defeating move to require even the non-competition cyclists on the 65km ride to carry transponders to determine a time they could measure using their watch. Surely split second timing is only of interest to the racers! What a great way to discourage participation! Methinks that they are asking recreational riders to subsidize the racers.
I suggest that the organisers offer a cheaper option for folks who don’t want to pay to be timed…..






I can’t pass the opportunity to tell you to run, don’t just slide your mouse to download or listen to the superb