After a recent MTB event, I had a bit of a chat to the event organisers, and organisers of some other events that were also present on the day... I was absolutely shocked at the costs involved in hosting an event... Many of these costs are related to compliance, and cannot be avoided... Out of the 5 organisers I spoke to (with some big name events behind some of them), none of them are making a profit yet. Most of them were aiming at a break-even point at around year 4 only!!! ... So it would seem that its not (always) the organisers screwing over riders, but the system in which we are forced to operate???
