Ooh, that’s good! (Any chance of changing it to Sportive as well?) You may be on to a winner here! 😀
Re sportives in general, as above, they can hide behind all the twaddle, but they’re races. Races ridden by people who don’t know how to race on the road*, and from the monthly or more that come through my way, they don’t really know how to ride on the road either. After every one, the local lanes are full of gel wrappers, as well. Asshats.
Put that sort of mass twattery in a place that’s already got problems with the huge numbers of people coming out from London to enjoy what is, it must be said, glorious countryside, and you have a problem.
There will come a time of much, much stricter regulation. Sportive organisers would do well to try and pre-empt the worst that this could bring.
* I don’t either, I should add. Only ever raced off road