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Chuky As a race organiser and moutain biker who is not a member of clubs, I am not opposed to paying the licence, if I were able to see where our money was going. We have spent long dollars building singletrack, we have also tried getting money from the above organisation to no avail. My only worry is that this is starting to feel like a fat cat tax, I am all for contributing to developing the sport but then I want to know where the money is going. Organisers are loathe to put the fee onto their entry price as then things look expensive and we all accuesed of making money something we have never succeded in as it all goes back into building more single track. good luck with one it's a hot potato. Can tell you that we are trying to get clarity from all these bodies as to where the money is going.

as the current opinion is raging, what would you say with this proposal. I am a winemaker, of a winery that makes a popular wine. My boss having seen how much energy we put into building singletracks and the success of mountain biking in bringing people to Wellington, asked me how can he help. Naturally I said we need money!!! and gave him the above scenario. He has in principal agreed to give us the difference in price between trade and cellar price discounted by 5% to make the deal attractive. that would mean that you would buy a wine for R65, we would get R12/bottle for building singletrack. the wine would be sold in cases of 6. do you think people would be interested??? Let me know what you think maybe we should post it on a separate post?

Niconda I'll break it down for you, so that before you decide to move Wellington and make your millions you can feel informed. 6*labourers @ R100/day 1*foreman @ R200/day Petrol/chain saw hire @ R200/day that is an average of 33m/man/day whoops we forgot about building bridges, the cut out, cambers, erosion ditches, cutting logs down for the edging. the most awesome sections usually cost us the most. I promise you we have never made a cent on building the trail. please give us your details, the trails we want to build are marked and as we raise the funds you are welcome to see if you can build the same spec as what exists. I would far rather get the chance to ride my bike more. regards

Dear Graveltravellers<?: prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> First of all many thanks for supporting us. We are mountain bikers wanting to do develop mountain biking as a sport, and singletrack for elevating the level at which we all ride. We hope that <?: prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Wellington singletrack will one day be compared to Whistler in Canadaon>,??..maybe the ?fluister van die Boland? 1.We acknowledge in part the chaos of registration, and are sorry for your frustration. In the true nature of sportsmanship, many of you had much constructive criticism for which we are grateful, others were down right agro,something coming to terms with!. We have taken this to heart, and will improve on in 2010. Please accept our apology! Thank you to a beautiful route, the frustrations were limited. We have poured heart and soul into the route, and are always facing the gaunlet of pigs looking for new singletrack. 2.The part of the blame too, rests on the new rules of the CSA for day licenses. This responsibility was forced on us.. This entailed the doubling up of the filling out of forms, which in part lead to the massive delays. This was imposed on us by the PPA. 3.As for the PPA saying they could do nothing about the registration, think again they are meant to be there in a supporting role, we pay for that! they only arrived once the first 100 cars were already parked! 4.The allegation of the money raised, I take personal exception, hear what you saying R90 000, for the event do the maths. Medics,marshalls, tents, the singletrack, insurence, timing, the venue, clean up. It costs on average R5000-8000/km in labor to build the singletrack. We started the race as a means to generate money to build more singletrack, so far we have made none. you could help bring done the costs...we have a spare spade!!! Till now we have not received one bit of funding, we available to do the work with your donations. We started doing something instead of talking, meter for meter 5.Finally to all those who saw our imperfections and were gracious enough to commend us on the route and give us supportive constructive criticism, thank you . 6.Those who will never be back again, I am sorry too. Never is a long time. Mark my words Wellington will have some of the best mountain biking to offer. Some of your suggestions: Registration in the parking area Better registration Only accepting online entries No CSA licenses, till they can show what they do for local mountain biking Invitation basis More singletrack Numbers and prizes for kids race