The toughest mountain bike race on earth launches with prize money of $1 million - The Munga

[Percyzn]

the winners on RASA do 2300 in 10 days.. Beats 1000 in 5....

[Wuzzie]

Why is it so expensive if its unsupported. You are basically paying R100k for someone to map out a route. Probably an insane amount of district road. They are obviously hoping for min 100 entries to cover prize money and the rest is profit.

Not adverse to people profiting in MTB its a good thing but this formula is flawed.

The main bunch are riding a long unsupported boring ride at a huge cost to pay for the marketing hype, which is a huge purse to go to a few probables.

Then they try do a lottery system for the "sponsor" riders.

Rather charge much less give smaller prizes and create a kick ass supported race with big corporate sponsors.

another point the race will be around 3 days for winners the others will be riding alone with nobody interested as the big prize would have been won already. Only the golden ticket left to win.

I think Freedom Challenge and Epic are far more appealing.