Help me understand cycling events

[DIPSLICK]

how does the old saying go,,,,IF YOU HAVE TO ASK,,,,,,,,,,

[tinmug]

2 hours ago, Mongoose! said:

 

Road ; mtb or Gravel event? 

Gravel.

[tinmug]

49 minutes ago, amac said:

I helped put on an event. 

To give you an idea of costs :

1. Prize money all categories - About R22K

2. CSA for commissaires, calendar etc - About 5K

3. Timing - 6.5k Including music

4. Venue Hire - 8k

5. Marking and cutting trail - 7k

6. Event promotion, taking entries 22K 

7. Safety officer 5k

8. medics 3.5k

9 marshals 8k

 

You need a lot of sponsorship and a lot of riders  to cover the costs.

Of course: it's not cheap to put an event together. 

Using your figures this comes to around R58K (omitted cutting trails, no relevant in this case, and promotion _ event listed on event company's website which already exist; if your web designer wants R22 to make a web page and post some photos on social media then you have bigger problems 😅). 

Assuming the sponsors give nothing, they will still turn a (dinky) profit with only 35 entries. 

But hey, if enough people are happy to trek hundreds of kilometres across the country, cough up that sort of entry fee, pay for accommodation, meals, drinks, blah-blah then I suppose our little economy is just fine after all. 

 

[Mongoose!]

8 minutes ago, tinmug said:

Gravel.

Maybe typing error

R170 only has one zero  🙃

[tinmug]

1 minute ago, Mongoose! said:

Maybe typing error

R170 only has one zero  🙃

You are right. I did type that wrong.

It's actually R1750. 

One day.

Public road.

Three water stations. 

[Mamil]

41 minutes ago, tinmug said:

You are right. I did type that wrong.

It's actually R1750. 

One day.

Public road.

Three water stations. 

Which event is this?

[Pieter-za]

It's like a virtual event, but you have to drive to it...

[ChrisF]

49 minutes ago, Pieter-za said:

It's like a virtual event, but you have to drive to it...

 

I probably could have driven there in the time Win10 updated ..... and Zwift updated .....

 

and no need for a fan when you cycle outside .....

[Frosty]

3 hours ago, tinmug said:

Of course: it's not cheap to put an event together. 

Using your figures this comes to around R58K (omitted cutting trails, no relevant in this case, and promotion _ event listed on event company's website which already exist; if your web designer wants R22 to make a web page and post some photos on social media then you have bigger problems 😅). 

Assuming the sponsors give nothing, they will still turn a (dinky) profit with only 35 entries. 

But hey, if enough people are happy to trek hundreds of kilometres across the country, cough up that sort of entry fee, pay for accommodation, meals, drinks, blah-blah then I suppose our little economy is just fine after all. 

 

I’m sure R22k is for the race office, i.e. online entry fees and some other costs, like race numbers, and not just putting a website together.

Entryninja and Howler (947 use them) charges 5% of the entry fee for a basic setup with admin being done by the event organiser. So a R200 entry fee = R10 * No. of entries (1000) = R10k or R20 if it’s a R400 entry fee.

A Cat-A or Cat-R1 event is R50k prize money minimum. 

If costs are not kept under control, by the organiser, as well as their service providers, losses are quick to show up. When that happens entry fee increase and number decline. The wheel then keeps turning.

[Super Sywurm]

In my earlier mtb years, I rode every race I could.  Now, I race selective, where I can't  normally ride for free.

I love mtb events and I don't ride for first place.  I ride for the experience.  This weekend we have a race in Mokala National Park. I've been there millions of times, never ons a bike.

Edited June 9, 2022 by Super Sywurm
And the Mokala race is the most I've ever paid for an event, R800 for two days.