Hello all,
a local charity has approached me about running a cycling sportive and I was wondering if anybody had any info or advice they can offer me. As a little bit of a background this is at a very early planning stage, but they usually organise a sponsored walk sort of event on this particular date and last year with some success added a mountain bike element.
I have no real experience at this sort of thing, though I have partaken in a few sportives.
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I haven't organised a sportive but I have a friend who does.
He said that British Cycling were very helpful and its good to get the police and council on your side too.
Get in touch with your regions BC events manager.
Never organised one, but I think if you are a CTC member or Audax member and you run it under their rules, the insurance cover is something like £25 for the event. I'm sure I read that recently too so it might be worth checking out. I would suspect otherwise insurance could be a big overhead for you. Good luck with your event though.
I think if you are a CTC member or Audax member and you run it under their rules, the insurance cover is something like £25 for the event.
Not for a Sportive, that's way too low.
British Cycling's insurance is £60 for every 100 riders on the event:
http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/sportives/article/bcst-event_org-Event-Organiser-Home-0
Last time I looked, CTC's was something very similar. SportIdent do an insurance policy as well which is about 65p per rider so CTC's will be in the same sort of area.
Thanks guys I have also found this which seems like good info:
[url= http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/sportives/article/bcst-event_org-Event-Organiser-Home-0 ]http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/sportives/article/bcst-event_org-Event-Organiser-Home-0[/url]
*edit so did the poster above 😉