BEAT THE BASTARD
Ok, I've stayed quiet about this but things are starting to get serious. We had 70 riders register to ride over the May Day weekend, the first 60 were told they were in so long as they got their registration papers and payment in by the end of February. When they weren't all in the 10 "reserves" were offered places.
We have now had a grand total of:
39 Paid –
20 paid standup riders.
18 paid Lugers.
1 paid Rollerblader.
We are about to have to go into our own pockets to pay for infrastructure such as haybales, toilets, etc that should be coming out of the rego fees that haven't been paid.
A small group of people have put an absolute shyteload of time and effort into getting a first class course opened and available for the downhill community to ride and there doesn't seem to be the willingness to make the effort on the part of the community to get involved. I know we are a long way away from a lot of oz, but if you weren't going to come, why say you were? We went ahead with this event based on the fact that we had 60 riders planning on attending and paying, going to be hard to do it on 2/3rds of that turn out and income. Certainly won't be much for the Prostate Cancer Fund will there?
We have decided that the cut off for registration and payment will be March 27th if you do not have your rego papers AND payment in by that time, or at least contacted Grits or myself by that date you will not be riding as we will base our logistics on the numbers we have on that date.
Time to walk the walk guys!!!!!!!!!!!!
A-Drain
We have now had a grand total of:
39 Paid –
20 paid standup riders.
18 paid Lugers.
1 paid Rollerblader.
We are about to have to go into our own pockets to pay for infrastructure such as haybales, toilets, etc that should be coming out of the rego fees that haven't been paid.
A small group of people have put an absolute shyteload of time and effort into getting a first class course opened and available for the downhill community to ride and there doesn't seem to be the willingness to make the effort on the part of the community to get involved. I know we are a long way away from a lot of oz, but if you weren't going to come, why say you were? We went ahead with this event based on the fact that we had 60 riders planning on attending and paying, going to be hard to do it on 2/3rds of that turn out and income. Certainly won't be much for the Prostate Cancer Fund will there?
We have decided that the cut off for registration and payment will be March 27th if you do not have your rego papers AND payment in by that time, or at least contacted Grits or myself by that date you will not be riding as we will base our logistics on the numbers we have on that date.
Time to walk the walk guys!!!!!!!!!!!!
A-Drain
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Benbro on -
awesome,i definatly want a copy,
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Speaking of the article...I'm the copy editor for CW, and out of respect, I'm trying to make sure everyone's name is spelled right in the article. I think I've got most of 'em right, except for a few that I've had a hard time finding online anywhere. Have I got these correct?
The Stand-up riders:
Graeme Akhurst, Nick Anstey, Nathan Aveyard, Colin “Bugs” Beck, Michael “Bow” Bowditch, Steve Daddow, Humberto De Melo, Ash Donaldson, Leigh Griffiths, Ben Hay, Pete Hill, Corey Leeson, Sebastian Lundmark, Jonatan Lundmark, Austin Moncrieff, Russell Meyers, Brad Pearson, Brodie Pederson, Dave “Robbo” Robertson, Jeremy Rodgers, Matt Ryan, Jackson Shapiera, Hagbarth “Haggy” Strom, Dennis Westphal, Michael White, Jason Wright.
Street Luge and Classic Luge:
Nick Duffield, Andrew Smith, Damian Sturgess, Lee Murr, Graham Brittain, Adrian Alderson, Adam Sparks, Phil Champion, Katie Champion, Clay Giblett, Tyler Johnson, Dave Kelly, Craig Mears, Brad Sterritt, Richard Powers.
G-Bike:
Pete Kullenberg.
Inline Skate:
Sean Cunningham.
Driver's name: Was it Elena or Eleanor?
Sakamoto said:Just wanted to update everyone on the Concrete Wave story and the official "Beat the Bastard" DVD, to go along with the articles Grits has put up. The story has been written and the relevant images sorted, and are on the editors desk as we speak. Pushing for the June issue, thanks to the efforts of Michael White and Nick "Boomer" Sable.
Anton has got the official dvd underway, and given a tentative release of July, but I'll keep everyone posted on the details. Availability will be through the organisers of "BtB".
I'd like to thank everyone who has helped in getting images, in whatever form, of what we do out to the general public. Anton says the footage is unbeleivable, and the biggest issue he has is deciding what footage to choose and what to cut to fit into 35 to 40 minutes. Maybe a full length feature film is needed....lololol.
Cheers.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Grits on -
elena.
We did have other drivers too.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Mic W on -
was Elena the race car driver?
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Permalink Reply by Adrian Alderson on
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Grits said:elena.
We did have other drivers too.
Yea, I think Phil (the other main driver) deserves a mention, but Elena is the speedster.
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Changes noted.
And Kanufi, I hope you were serious about including the "wah" part of it, cuz that's what I put in the revised version I just sent. (If not, don't worry, it's nothing that a sizeable cash contribution can't fix.) :-)
Kanufi said:Can you put in Graeme "kanufi-wah" Akhurst :)
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Mic W on -
Thanx for holding such a great/awesome event, please do it again next year. Cheers to all the dedicated volunteers involved. Great place,great people.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Grits on -
Don't forget the main event organisers name - Michaela Morrison
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