Anyone been turned away at a charity bike ride?

Anyone ever registered for some charity ride or other event, and then
been told they can't ride when you arrived because they only had one
wheel?
I don't think it would happen, epecially if you've got a handful of
donations you're waiting to give them, but it makes me nervous about
registering online.
But, it seems like they'd be a lot more likely to let you ride if you
showed up with a uni, rather than ask them in advance if they allow it.
If you just show up, it's more like they'd just assume everything is
normal.


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Most charity rides here attract loads of people on really weird
contraptions... back-to-back tandems, bikes with millions of people on
or bikes decorated like the Batmobile. As long as you're not doing
something obviously daft, like entering a really long ride on a 20" or
suchlike, I would have thought they'd welcome anything that's a bit
different and grabs some more attention.

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Most charity rides here attract loads of people on really weird
contraptions... back-to-back tandems, bikes with millions of people on
or bikes decorated like the Batmobile. As long as you're not doing
something obviously daft, like entering a really long ride on a 20" or
suchlike, I would have thought they'd welcome anything that's a bit
different and grabs some more attention.

Phil


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I just completed the Tour De Cure in May, and signed up for the MS150
for September last night. This is right from their website.

YOUR BIKE

Many different kinds of bikes are used during the bike tour,
including: road, mountain, recumbent, hybrid and yes, some unicycles.
No bike will be disqualified from use so long as it is in safe
mechanical condition.





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Skippii wrote:
Anyone ever registered for some charity ride or other event, and then
been told they can't ride when you arrived because they only had one
wheel?

Dunno about in your neck of the woods, but in the UK all the charity
rides that I'm aware of take place on the public highway. They might be
able to refuse registration, but there's nothing they can do to stop you
riding (short of taking out an injunction).

Can you imagine any charity wanting the publicity that would result from
turning away a unicyclist? If they tried to do so then the chances are
that there would be journalists in attendance who would be interested to
hear about it.

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Is that on the MS150 website? I've been searching that site, as I hope
to do that.
Are you doing the tanglewood/greensboro ride?


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Skippii wrote:
*Is that on the MS150 website? I've been searching that site, as I
hope to do that.
Are you doing the tanglewood/greensboro ride? *


Actually the one in Atlanta. 'Heres the page.'
(http://tinyurl.com/9upf3)


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I was trying to get into a charity run on my uni, but was not allowed.
I understand why they wouldn't let me, although I wasn't going for any
sort of recognition. I didn't even care if they timed me...I just
wanted to do the distance on the uni.

I ended up simply running the race, which was fun in and of itself.


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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Skippii wrote:

Anyone ever registered for some charity ride or other event, and then
been told they can't ride when you arrived because they only had one
wheel?

When some UK unicyclists were getting refused entry to UK mountain
bike events, they fitted a tiny wheel underneath teh saddle. It then
becomes a pedal-powered two-wheeled cycle, and is more difficult to
exclude from bicycle events.

That wasn't a charity event. I would expect a charity event to be
more tolerant.

regards, Ian SMith
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I few of use did a 17mile charity walk on our uni's for the British
Heart Foundation last year, they didn't mind at all, in fact they liked
us so much they used a photo of us at the finish line in this years
premotional flyer...

www.bhf.org.uk for details of this winter's high peak trail walk