Premier Calendar Rolling Enclosures.

[mhgregor]

Bigger fields, foreign teams, bigger UK teams, television, increased exposure, increased membership, snowball effect etc etc??? I would, without doubt!

[NickB]

I vote yes because I want to race some next year and think it would be rather nice to have a road closed, although I will probbaly be behind the road closer for most of the race

[mhgregor]

Did I forget to mention safety...sorry?

[Richard Kennedy]

I voted no, not because I'm necessarily against the idea, the rolling road closures work superbly, we used to have 2 police outriders every year for our club's 2-day and they contributed enormously to the safety of the event. BUT before coming up with ideas like this we need to see how much it would actually cost, rather than just say a notional £15-£20, and I'd also rather see the cost added to the entry fee of the Premier Calendar rather than the general membership fee, but this is likely to make the entry prohibitively expensive without serious sponsorship

[Stuart]

I would advocate sponsership for the series a la Pernod Super Cup etc
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[racyrich2]

Since in *CENSORED* we'll be paying next year for a compulsory police presence we'll know if a £30 entry fee is sustainable. I suspect not.
Cue usual comments re cost of bike versus cost of race.
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[bonger]

No but i would pay that to have closed roads for the BTTC. They should make sure the whole mountain bike NPS series is UCI sanctioned before starting on anything else.
Can't they just put the entry up, i would expect to pay £50 to ride the premier series, espically if it had closed roads.

[dockeca]

Extra entry money would not generate enough income. 80 riders @ £50, would leave about £30 a rider to pay for closure, £2,400.
Which would not have covered the bill for many Premiers. If you need 6 motos and a command car, look at a total of around £400-£500 PER HOUR, with a minimum of at least 6 chargable hours (plus any preparation hours which may be deemed to be needed). This is for minimum cover, about £3,000. Add in a few static pointsmen at about £45 an hour (another £470 each), plus the NEG costs to support the police effort once the traffic gets stopped, plus temporary road closaure costs (council notices in public press), which adds another £3,000 or so.
The best estimate works out at around £7,000 per day of racing.
The add in the higher prize money which is justified at this level of racing, and all the other promotion costs, and look at about £15,000 upwards.
You would need 100 riders to pay £100 entry to even begin to cover this, and even big triathlons can't get away with this much, for much more event and free goodies (average around £50-60).

The only answer is a substantial sponsorship package for the series.
By substantial I mean about £20,000 per race, so 9 premiers and the national championship, a cool £*CENSORED*.
Any leads, anyone? I'm happy to sell/negotiate for close to nothing, if it solves the problem, as I do it for a living in a different sphere.
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[Zeco2]

I would suggest that circa 200 riders per event should be the target. Anyone out of contention to be pulled out. Can be done, should be done. In fact, it is done in the lands where where common sense prevails.
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[Matt Clinton]

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[Tom Butcher]

I think another £20 on membership is getting towards a figure where occasional racers are going to look at it at the start of the season and think they wont bother getting a licence/membership.

[Max Drury]

[Emyr42]

I'll be a student in september, and if it goes up, I'm gonna have to seriously consider looking for a sponsor or a sponsored club...

[Mossy]

[Mossy]

[bonger]