£15 I take it its free beer?

He’ll make a killing. Theme it, make it all yellow. Dye the grass yellow, paint the whole road yellow, it’ll get on TV and people will talk about it.

Advertise it EVERYWHERE, Get as many people in there as you can…… So I can go out on my bike maybe in the Peak or Wales and enjoy the deserted trails

What do you mean by letting it off?

If you want to make monpey then selling burgers to people on bikes is a long shot. What most will do is ignore the £15 storage and sit with their bike or worse sit on the other side of the road.
If you want something to cover the costs then food vans, toilets and some bike racks might work.

If you can swing a corporate thing then you probably want to get it over to someone professional who can organise it and know how to sell it – also the sort of people who will pay £15 for bike parking to sit in a yorkshire summer in their sky kit are not the sort who will ride there. You will probably need to coordinate with parking somewhere else and get a fleet of shuttle buses.

camper van parking cycle jumble sale.

You might get people to pay for car parking, camping, burgers, beer, soft drinks. You’ll need or sorts of things from the council to make it work but they should be amenable

Area for camping, running water, portaloos, bike parking. Count me in!

It might me worth getting in touch with Kirklees Council to discuss the logistics of using the land. Bear in mind that it’s going to be inaccessible to vehicles for the day of the event, so that’ll restrict what you can do with it.
Setting up some sort corporate thing won’t work if the corporate types can’t drive in and park up.
I’d be thinking along the lines of running it as a basic campsite – there are going to be a lot of people wanting to overnight on the hill to get a good viewpoint on raceday. Get some catering and a beer tent sorted out for the weekend and watch the money come in 😉

Keep it for a stw forum meet up.

Charge for parking and be done with it.

Although I’m sure even that will need council approval etc.

8am till 5pm on a Yorkshire hill side, is a long time to keep some one fed, watered and happy whilst charging them for the privilege.

I am sure that all the rich southerners will be staying in posh hotels in Harrowgate

Corporate stuff will be at the start and finish where they can meet the riders before/after. It may be the biggest hill in the UK stages but in the greater scheme of things it’s a pimple and isn’t going to slow them down that much that it becomes a spectating hotspot and it doesn’t have the prestige of a mountain. I’d suggest pitching at the general punter so parking and food (charge caterers for using the site?).

Advertising hoardings. Low hassle. Potentially lucrative if it’s in the right place.

Or think outside the box a bit, partner up with a bike brand, give them an opportunity to set up some sort of complimentary hospitality centre for cycling spectators – coffee, service centre, product display, video entertainment – there’s going to be a lot of sitting about waiting.

I’m guessing the land’s going to be quite low down as otherwise it’ll be a precipitous slice of moorland hummockry dotted with sheep.

I cheerfully forecast a 2014 sportive explosion all over Holme Moss and a lot of very frightened cyclists mixing it with the horror traffic on the Woodhead.

^this

If you’ve not already done so, check with the council (or whoever) when the road is going to be closed from and to. There’s little point creating a car park if no cars will be allowed to get to it. The adventurous types who might camp overnight are probably the same type who would be happy to walk or ride in, so my gut feeling is that providing camping might not be worth the effort of providing running water and toilets.

I reckon food and drink is where you might be able to make some money if the Holme Moss burger van market is not already saturated for July 2014.

Is there even any flat land on Holme Moss…other than the top?

Keep it simple I reckon. The Belgian model, as seen at the Spring classics, might work well. At its most simple that’s just a beer tent, more developed is a beer tent, but ticketed/paid admission, food and some big TVs to watch the rest of the race on once the 5 minutes of action has zipped past.

Pretty clear income stream (beer and food), plus I bet there’s plenty who would pay to watch the rest of the race live there and then, even if they didn’t partake of the beer and food before hand.

You will have licencing issue to deal with (alcohol and TV showing I guess)

We are letting out 2 fields on our Farm in Harrogate and we have bookings already.. Harrogate Council were aproached WRT what we can and can not do and the answer we got was “pretty much anything” Thier attitude was so long as it’s temporary and falls into line and servicing the TdF we’re ok to do pretty much anything.
So, we have organised toilets, electric hookups (for tents and caravans, and a washing service for dirty clothing via a hook up on the town. All’s sorted out, we have bookings and lots of advertising already in place.
We intend to do something with bails of hay and tart up one of the fields with TdF framed picture that can be seen from the air..