Cost of 1 day cycling licence

Personally I'd like cover for the participants as well but you are right, it's on open roads, riders should be able to look after themselves. Make sure you have all your T's crossed and I's dotted. You cannot be indemnified against a breach of the SHWWA, so make sure all paperwork, risk assessments, necessary notifications are all in order. Open roads or not, it is an event your club organised. This applies to CI events as well but at least with a CI event, CI is the person at the top, not the club. Probably the reason they have become so insistent on risk assessments being submitted in recent years.

I can well imagine many clubs going this route if it is that cheap, or pulling it in under another organisations insurance. It's only 25 entrants.

It would of course be far easier to put a motion to the AGM and put up the numbers as to why it was not needed. Should be easy to get the number of ODL last year, and in previous years, see if there is no drop in numbers what the increase take in is and see can CI absorb it. If there were 4000 ODLs last year, that's the wages of one staff member to be absorbed, if there were 1000, it's simply a small reduction in the package offered to the new chief.

It would be good to get clarity from CI if the cost goes straight to the insurer or do they have a set cost regardless. If the former it means off loading this cost elsewhere, if the latter, then where can this cost be absorbed.

I think if you read a bit further into it you'll see that most of CIs income is grant related not from membership fees. Grants tend to go where numbers or success is, despite IMO it should be used to support those who might not have either. CI benefits hugely from large leisure numbers as it is a metric for grant awards. It's not altruistic, it's mutually beneficial. Leisure members get reduced rates to events, 3rd party insurance and discounts for various retailers. Do they get value for money, that is really dependent on the person. I think I've only ever used one voucher for gym and coffee and haven't done a leisure event in 5 years so for me no, it's just a requirement to race for others it might be huge value for money.

This is aside from the ODL, you could give in 20euro to the charity and just ride the route, its open roads. Anyone here who raises money for charity would prefer that than you not going at all. You'll have to get your own food on the way round but thats about it.

Also my point to @Patches oHoulihan was simply that if €21.50 was acceptable, just donate that to the charity. Whether you go on the spin is unimportant then. Go out for a coffee and as long a ride as you can muster. Send your mates a whatsapp, tell them to cough up 20 quid each and you will do up a route and you are all doing it on a set date come rain, hail or shine. I agree @loyatemu turning up to another event and riding round at the same time / date is just taking the piss, even if your not using their food stops, you are using their route work, their marshals, and so on. If you don't want to pay it, just do it another weekend. If its for a charity and you are pissed at CI, donate directly to the charity. If its fund raising for a club or something else, just go another weekend, otherwise you are just a cheapskating assh*t. Certain members of Audax UK will welcome you with open arms where people give out about the cost of a full breakfast at a control for 25p.

Charity stuff aside, there are several leisure events I would happily pay entry for it because there is a buzz, there is comradery, there is joy in shared suffering. I have my certificate from the first time I completed the Mick Byrne hung in my garage, I have my first WW200 medal hanging there too, the orwell randonee is a fantastic event, as was the Morgan Sparrow with the Air Corp a few years ago where we got a full MP escort through parts of Wicklow, they had set up a station at the top of one climb and it was phenomenal.