I dont know if he's soo much a **** as just completely disorganised and inept.
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Ride-all-night 24hr at Weston Park. Anyone else entered this... Is it a con???!!
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I also didn't call him a cock!?
Either way, I've done his job for him and made an attempt to inform people who have paid him money (and lots of it) in good faith, for an event which didn't even have permission from the owners of the venue he proposed to hold it on.Posted 2 years ago # -
Nothing wrong with taking money for something you can't supply or never had. Call me old fashioned, but it sounds borderline ilegal.
BTW anyone interested a Colnago with full super record £3000 pics available when and if I ever get one
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"Nothing wrong with taking money for something you can't supply or never had. Call me old fashioned, but it sounds borderline ilegal."
But the whole point is he didnt take any money.
He asked for the payment via cheque but didnt cash them. I imagine this was so he could go to Weston Park say look I've got all these cheques will you let me do the event.
This is a pretty dodgy way of going about things alright but not the same as taking people money.
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Ah well, maybe you'll be a bit more careful who you send cheques to in future. Lesson learned and no harm done as far as I can see.
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Feel free not to email us oldgit to keep us updated. But it's alright to do that.
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Fair do's. But it sounded like to me anyway that he had an event to sell.
There are like you say less dodgy ways to do this i.e make it clear youre getting a pot together to get this thing off the ground, but to give costs, dates and a venue is very very wrong.
If I was still working at my old place I would have had to book that time off and plan my training and family life around it.Posted 2 years ago # -
Lee Anderson'esque.
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And JB at least you don't have to ask the question 'What tyres for Weston Park'
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Exactly. I'd say we were entirely justified in assuming he had an event OK'd with the guys at Weston Park.
Admittedly I could have done some research prior to entering and would probably have realised that he tried to get it up and running in 2008 and failed.
Just boiled my p**s a little that he hadn't contacted anyone even though he hadn't cashed any cheques. I wonder if he'd have let everyone just turn up anyway.Posted 2 years ago # -
We could all still turn up and ask for Chris
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Ah, I thought this was familiar from a year or so ago. It was sort of marketed as an MTB event / party / rave / whatever. Ignoring the fact that is was going to be held on the flattest place on earth and the prices were a joke, it did remind me of the old Malverns Challenge / Classic days pre stabbing and drinks ban. It sucked when beer tents went AWOL.
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Sorry walleater - malverns challenge means nothing to me!?
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Circa 1945, there was a weekend of races held in Eastnor Paaaaark, near Malvern. It was always very warm and sunny so having a huge beer tent was extremely useful. After one or two shandys, future policemen, world class downhillers and MTB journos could be found climbing up to the top of the tent and rolling down it, landing around or on security guards. In the early innocent days there was only minor drug taking and random punchings, but someone did get stabbed in one of the subsequent events.
Bring back events like this I say.
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Bring back events like this I say.
We are doing.
July 17th.
No stabbings though please.
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Think Altamont with bicycles.
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we will have a beer tent with a large bicycle race-sized opening at each end, pit stop in the middle on the bar side.
Maybe.
And a rock band on the other side.
Perhaps.
Who knows. We'll have sod all if you don't send us a cheque. We will however have permission.
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