Charity Rides
There are millions of these. Everyone's seen the flyers in the bike shops and the occasional message that finds its way into your inbox asking you to "Help fight Disease X by riding 100 miles!". Ok. I get it. But I don't. If you want to support a cause, then write a check to whatever charity associates itself with it. Why complicate things by pinning numbers? Why dilute the support for the cause by adding the expenses associated with permits and staff and port-a-johns and and and. It just isn't efficient.
posted by Aram at 1:28 AM
4 Comments:
Go ride around in a square in some industrial park and continue to make excuses when you lose. Charities rides are just that. Geez a summer in France and you have become a french snob.
4:32 AM
nah hb, I agree with Aram here. At least I think I understand what he means.
I know this sounds harsh, but take the 3-day walk. thousands and thousands of people, t-shirts, swag, trash, and all the spin-off marketing material. What is the point to spend that kind of money if it is a benefit.
There is a lot of money to be made in "charity" walks, runs, rides, climbs, whatever it is.
My point is, yes, they are awesome and they serve a purpose, but there are people taking advantage of them.
has nothing to do with the french people. I don't like them either ;-)
3:55 PM
JH..
I understand your point.Let me counter by saying, people will always take advantage and try to make money off anything.
But, tell the person whose riding up a 20 mile climb on one leg not for himself but for his sick brother, or the wife whose riding in memory of his dad or husband,
that these rides are meaningless.
Its all in your perspective. You can either see the good it brings or the bad that evolves.
Whether its a crit, a road race or a charity ride. Its about being on the bike, being outdoors and riding.
Try not to look at it from a corporate advertising perspective but from an individual riders line of sight.
4:51 PM
Good points all around...and i'm flattered at the annonymous pokes, but "continue to make excuses when I lose" Really?
10:11 PM
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