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Re: [RC] rides too close together and heavyweight riders - Barbara McCraryIn a word, NO. I was sanctioning director for the west region for many years and sanctioning director for special events for many more years. I tried to keep at least 150 miles between rides, or a major geographical barrier, such as the Sierra Nevada Mts. There are more volunteers to put on rides than there are weeks in the year, at least in the west region. There is no fair way to refuse some ride managers a date and allow others to have a date, much less specify how frequently rides may take place or how far apart. The answer is, riders CAN'T go to all of them, any more than they can buy all the types of cars that are made for sale or buy all of the different kinds of food available. Rides have to run on customer approval, and the ride managers have to take their chances. If a ride is great, riders will come back the following year. If the ride isn't so great, the rider can either decide not to come back or give the RM a chance to create a better ride the following year. I never could find a way to legislate who shall put on a ride and who shall not. And.....if only the established rides have priority, then no new rides will be put on, and think of that......no new rides that just might be better than your current favorite. Old rides pass away, new ones take their places; there has to be variety and the opportunity for new rides to try out. If you can't attend all the rides offered, make your choice and go to it. Don't try to say others can't put on rides just because you can't attend all of them. Furthermore, it's up to the ride manager to determine if their ride is going to suffer and die and whether he can afford to offer the ride for a lesser number of riders. A vast majority of RMs don't make a profit, or sometimes they don't even clear expenses. That's their choice. To paraphrase an old saying, "It's better to have tried to manage a ride and have failed to clear expenses than never to have tried at all."Barbara If this opinion hadn't been around for such a long time, it wouldn't have the power to ruffle me, but I've heard this for the past 2 to 3 decades and it doesn't seem ever to go away completely. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ridecamp Guest" <guest-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 12:33 PM Subject: [RC] rides too close together and heavyweight riders Please Reply to: concerned eagle2@xxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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