Well what could you say? The event, to me was a quite over-rated affair.
A number of standouts being..
- Totally unco-ordinated
- Losing a bike rider less than 5kms from the start!
- No signs or signallers at critical intersections.
these were for the ride itself, which featured for me at least a couple of brushes with Eastern Brown Snakes and a 2 foot Goanna although NO Magpies! Also a long slog against an ever increasing NE headwind on the return ride (25-40 km/hr) with no shelter by anything resembling hills!
The Event, at which I lasted 10 minutes, was also, as classified by me, as…
- General feeling about the event - “A big group hug, with indifference to outsiders”.
- Lacking general information for “Guests“ (ie upon arrival, which was done in drips and drabs by the riders of Route #4 because of the lost rider [who was found safe and well riding with the leader], there was no marshaling areas etc)
- The person on the registration desk at the end was more interested in talking to their BUG mates than providing any pertinent information, even when queried!
- There was far too limited secure/safe parking
- Everything seemed disjointed and chaotic.
- Rider leaders etc were more interested in BUG fundraising by way of a raffel than the actual Bike2Bruns event.
- If you didn’t want to join their BUG then and there you were conveyed a pleasant feeling of irrelevance with a casual air of indifference. (ie left standing there with the same “You are dismissed” feeling you get after receiving a tongue lashing from a headmaster.)
All up a nice enough very FLAT 60 kilometer ride spoilt slightly by the addition of a lot of unnecessary crap. It will be quite a while before I bother to undertake another group ride such as this.
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