Ridecamp: Re: [RC] completion awards - Moonlight Madness

I just got a quote for some T-shirts for our school. It will have
screenprinting on front pocket area (2 colors) and a larger design on
back. 100% cotton, 1st quality and we're ordering around 100.  They're a
little less than $5 each.  Back when I ordered ride shirts I believe it
was 50 cents extra for color.  

I have one buckle from the Land Between the Lakes ride.  I think she had
to buy a bunch of them to get the price down and use them up over the
next several years.  Maybe doable for a manager with an established ride
that isn't liable to lose its trail or something.  I think if I were
going to absorb the price of a buckle I'd want it to be a *special*
braggin rights kinda ride...like Tevis, OD ...or even the old Edgemont
that almost killed me. I'd have worn that buckle. Wouldn't mean enough if
it was from a ride I just breezed through.

Angie 


> I'm wondering, what would the general concensus be to a ride 
> offering the
> entrance fee they do now, but with an added extra bonus of the 
> entrant
> paying to have a buckle or some other type something made as an 
> extra line
> on the entry form if they do complete and want something more? I 
> realize
> that there would have to be a minimum order on something like that 
> and
> obviously it would have to say on the entry fee that there would 
> have to be
> enough people who wanted it in order for it to happen.
> 
> I have always been so proud of my 37th place finish at the Nugget as 
> a
> 16-year-old and have worn that buckle for 28 years now. If I am 
> never able
> to get another one, at least I will have this one. But it sure would 
> be
> great to have something other than a t-shirt 30 years from now if an
> opportunity arises for another conversation. I know, you say, "so 
> get off
> your butt and do the Tevis!" I think I have a long ways to go, if 
> ever, to
> make it to that ride!
> 
> :) Jackie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lynne Glazer" <lynne@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <wrecksduke@xxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [RC] completion awards - Moonlight Madness
> 
> 
> > At 5:05 PM +0000 7/23/02, Ridecamp Guest wrote:
> > >Melody Wong wrecksduke@xxxxxxx
> > >What's the price/cost difference in a t-shirt with the name of 
> the
> > >ride screened on it versus a water bottle with "happy faces" on 
> it?
> > >It would have been nicer to get something with the name of the 
> ride on
> it.
> > >Where was the ride photographer by the way?
> > >Melody
> >
> > Hi, Mel-
> >
> > You know, sometimes I think we've raised expectations to a pretty
> > high level in these parts.
> >
> > I also like to get a completion award that has the ride's name or
> > logo on it.  For good quality screening and if it's a shirt, a 
> good
> > quality shirt, I pay $10.  You've gotten used to almost all rides 
> in
> > our region offering a high quality completion award.  Not all,
> > though.  And a first year ride mgr has to be careful about costs.  
> I
> > lost $1500 the first year putting on Norco.  About $500 the next
> > year.  Since then we've done better.  Economized since by cutting 
> out
> > rider lunches (while still doing 80+ volunteers'), and because the
> > equipment needed to put on the ride had been purchased in the 
> first
> > year.
> >
> > There are some people who put on rides to make money.  Sometimes
> > clubs put on rides as fund-raisers.  Some of us put on rides just 
> to
> > provide a place for like-minded folks to have fun with their 
> horses,
> > where the hosts don't get much party-time in but the others can...
> >
> > Having a ride photographer is not really a "given", but a "nice to
> > have".  We gave away photos free the first year of NRR, and have 
> had
> > a pro photographer who has charged for photos since.  I hope 
> people
> > appreciate how Terry has managed to give away the photos at her
> > rides, with a frame, no less IN ADDITION to a completion award 
> with
> > the ride's logo and name on it.
> >
> > Yeah, she's raised the bar for the rest of us.  ;-)
> >
> > When I attend a ride, I just want competent vets, well-marked and
> > interesting trails which distance doesn't exceed the advertised
> > mileage, horse water, and a decent road in and out of the place.  
> The
> > rest is icing on the much-appreciated cake.
> >
> > Lynne
> > Norco Riverdance Ride (PS) 8/31/02
> >
> >
> >
> > 
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