Yeah, why not? I need something to take my mind off of the 5hite I am dealing with at work at the moment.Cheeky Monkey wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:56 amOKCheddar Man wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:53 amStart in Bristol, easy ride out to the Mendips, camp, ride back.thenorthwind wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:24 am
I think starting in an urban area, as Richard says, would be the best approach. There aren't many places where you couldn't get an inexperienced group out to some nice countryside via a relatively gentle ride, and you get the added bonus of demonstrating to the participants that it is possible to escape the city just by riding out of it.
Easy steps........
1. Ask for volunteers
2. See where the majority are based and figure something out venue wise*
3. All volunteers take on a task (venue arranging, route choice to get there, base camp team, who teaches what, ride leader)
4. Co-ordinate tasks (getting people along, arranging kit from all of us, organising bikes, 'sponsorship' from businesses)
5. Do it, and review
Second time round......
Repeat 1, 2, 3 *this time travellers stay put and stay putters travel or some such thing
4, different people as now we have new locals
5, repeat
See, it's easy!
So are you organising it then or anticipating someone else to take up that baton?
But like I just said above, approaching companies for help with sponsorship is easier if I say........
'Hi, I have volunteered to head up the fledgling BearBones Bikepacking Foundation to get under-represented blah blah blah.....' rather than.........
'Hi, it's Grant, any chance of some kit so I can do a thing to see if it works?'
If there is no appetite for this from the site owner to be associated with this type of thing, then that is it, and as I have been corrected, he hasn't said no or yes yet. It needs some thinking about as there are obstacles, but if we we start with the negatives then the positives will just get squeezed and squeezed. The principal is sound though and think of the kudos if we can pull it off?