Icycling - as a cycling business operator you surely have a vested interest in the growth in numbers of active cyclists.As such it makes good business sense to be involved in any organisation that promotes such growth including sitting and serving on committee's. As a cyclist I appreciate the work you and others are doing, but think that the PPA is making a huge mistake by using what appears to be coercive methods to gain members. As previously mentioned had (constructive) correspondence with Karin Pohl part of which included this; Thank you for your comments; it is always good to get feedback from both members and non-members, and relooking the services offered to cyclists is an ongoing process. We’ll certainly look at making our project funding and other initiatives more public. Yes, you need to do about 5 events per year to justify the cost of PPA membership. I copy from the previous email: Non-members/visitors who wish to ride in seeded start groups, are welcome to (and many do) join PPA for the day, in order to receive a seeded number so that they can start in the seeded start groups. As far as the winner is concerned: That will be the first person across the line, and you are entirely correct that the first person wearing a transponder may not be the same person at MTB events. Having said that, most of the PPA events are funrides and are listed as such on the CSA calendar, and as such the organisers may offer only hampers and/or lucky draws and not offer prize money, unless there is a specific licensed racing category (like the road riding leagues). We are, however, investigating a MTB league series and have been talking to WP MTB in this regard.
