On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 13:10 -0700, Anne Paulson wrote:
> I see. SFR is putting on a nice 75 mile bike ride for people who feel
> like riding a beautiful 75 mile bike ride. Nothing wrong with that,
> and undoubtedly the people who ride this will have an great time. I
> hope everyone on this list who participates will enjoy themselves; I
> know I would if I rode it. But what is the point of "introduc[ing]
> riders to the sport of randonneuring" if they are not targeting riders
> who would actually be interested in randonneuring? Lee says it's a
> kind of recruitment event, and I say if it were longer, it would be
> better for recruiting.

Maybe, but aren't populaires traditionally 100km?  I thought a big part
of the "introduction" was to the rules, brevet cards, controles,
basically everything that differentiates randonneuring from centuries or
other long rides.



-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW 
Owners Bunch" group.
To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.

Reply via email to