Velo NORTH - Anyone in?

Velo NORTH - Anyone in?

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anonymous-user

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60 months

Monday 27th May 2019
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nammynake

2,606 posts

179 months

Monday 27th May 2019
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Yes. Looking forward to closed roads, although they're not exactly busy with traffic in that neck of the woods!

Marcellus

7,153 posts

225 months

Monday 27th May 2019
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Yep, final big event of the year for me.

mie1972

182 posts

159 months

Saturday 1st June 2019
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Yep, doing the 100

askew

102 posts

122 months

Saturday 1st June 2019
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After doing the Birmingham ride they've sent me a code for half-price entry if anybody's on the fence: VBM3MONTHS

ukbabz

1,589 posts

132 months

Thursday 6th June 2019
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it's pretty pricey, £115 for the fast track seems overly gouging!

Strava challenge code is VELOSTRAVA for £25 off until 9/6 which takes standard entry to £50 which isn't too bad.

Just a shame they all appear to be on Sundays, makes driving to other end of the country trickier so won't be doing it.

Pamoothican

266 posts

98 months

Thursday 6th June 2019
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I would have loved to enter this year, it passes near my house too.

Unfortunately it is the week before the great north run so I am having a feet up easy weekend, probably be stuck in the village with road closures too.

15,000 cyclists, really that many? No one comments on their Facebook page, it doesn't seem that popular?

One gripe with their video of David Millar and Martin Johnson riding the route. They go through a village (Lanchester) following the way of the route but are seen doing the climb out of the village the wrong way, back the way they would have come. I know they probably didn't cycle the whole route and its been edited to look like it. Maybe its because the hill they are seen ascending is No. 60 in the greatest cycle climbs. Who knows!

Pamoothican

266 posts

98 months

Thursday 4th July 2019
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And it has been cancelled!

Supposedly poor uptake. I could see it coming, the number of FB page likes and shares were in the 10s whereas Birmingham was in the 000s

Daveyraveygravey

2,054 posts

190 months

Thursday 4th July 2019
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Are they keeping it quiet? I can't see anything about it on the usual cycling websites. The organisers must have made a lot of money somewhere to be refunding people for this as well as Velosouth last year.
It's a shame really, the nimbys were so vocifereously anti-velosouth I suspect the organisers were relieved the weather forecast was so bad.

Marcellus

7,153 posts

225 months

Thursday 4th July 2019
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Not sure they're making a lot of money somewhere, I suspect the opposite, profit is tight not prepared to run an event at a loss initially hopeing it will grow in to profit in future years.

Didn't they stop running Velothon Cardiff because they were losing money on it??

Anyway emails to everyone who'd entered today, 3 options; refund, entry to velo brum, donate to charity.

TheFungle

4,093 posts

212 months

Sunday 7th July 2019
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Hardly surprising.

Pay to ride on closed roads which are quiet at the worst of times - fk that.

Clearly it wasn't but it always had a feel of 'scam' about it, glossy advertising yet little substance when you click through, I'm glad I didn't let my mate persuade me to enter.