Sunny Corner Rally

[glennMember]

Lets say I was to enter this ride,,What do i get for my $150.00?

[Mick DMember]

Hey Huzza, no matter how much a ride costs you are still gunna get whingers. In March I put a ride on which included a 130km of lush unmolested trails, a tank of fuel,lunch and after ride snacks and a beer or two all for the whopping cost of $25 and I still had a tosser get on here and sledge the shit out of the ride. So what do you do? You can’t please them all.

[glennMember]

micknmeld wrote:

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Hey Huzza, no matter how much a ride costs you are still gunna get whingers. In March I put a ride on which included a 130km of lush unmolested trails, a tank of fuel,lunch and after ride snacks and a beer or two all for the whopping cost of $25 and I still had a tosser get on here and sledge the shit out of the ride. So what do you do? You can’t please them all.

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who the heck could whinge about that deal????
PS.. if its on again, Im in

[Anonymous]

I don’t even have the option of going as it’s on the same weekend as Coffs for me. I will do it one year to check it out and say I’ve done it.

I think the organisers of events such as this do a lot of hard work so I don’t generally grumble about entry fees, that said $150 seems a bit steep for for a single day and a 1 in 1000 chance of winning a bike. Maybe they should sell cheaper tickets that exclude the raffle option so your not paying for someone to have a new bike and can just go on the ride.

Maybe it’s just me…I like Sydney as well though :dry:

[Matt BakerMember]

i dont think its just the people on the ride that have a chance to win the bike, when i went to the apex charity ride they were also selling raffle tickets before the event to go in the draw to win the bike. maybe this one is the same

[TrentMember]

Moto wrote:

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I will do it one year to check it out and say I’ve done it.

based on the attitude of the wattagans tour organisers and the post above and I’d rather not go so I can say I haven’t done it :silly: :kiss:

[jamieMember]

~The raffle is only only open to riders, and you actually have to be there to collect so the odds are narrowing.

~The raffle is open to members of the central tablelands club.

~I didn’t realize i had a fat arse,for not pre paying…….I thought a further $25 into the organizers accounts would be a good thing?

[john morganMember]

what do you get for money?
depends how you look at it. what I get is a chance to ride somewhere I dont normally go.
marked trails with sweeps to pick up those who cant quite get there.
ambulance/rescue on hand if things turn to shit
hot breakfast and lunch handed to me without anymore effoert than stand in a line. this is done by the local school and it is usually kids working at the counter.this helps local school projects
a chance to win a new bike ,as well as a heap of other prizes.
toilets
free camping,a bonfire and live band.
these people also clearup any crap left behind so that they will be allowed to run it again next year.
are reading today that its gonna cost $7 dollars/hour to park at Bondi, I dont think it is over the top. if you dont like,dont go,but dont knock people who put in a lot of their free time for our sport.

[glennMember]

sound like value for money, my issue isnt the cost its my riding ability to handle the trails after 6 hundred odd bikes have been through ..can`t see myself being up front of the ride??

[Paul SouthwellMember]

Did this ride in the pissin down rain last year and had a ball. did not see anyone without a smile :woohoo: these rides are not for everybody but scotty and i had a ball. not going this year but maybe next and im sure most people this year will have a ball. better than sitting on the lounge or going riding with moto the big mole :kiss: :kiss:

[alanMember]

its just a trail ride boony you would handle it the year i went it was more like a road ride so have not been back theres a road out the front of my house its free to ride on

[GregMember]

Tiny wrote:

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better than sitting on the lounge or going riding with moto the big mole :kiss: :kiss:

Now thats so true :laugh:

TB

[Mick PilgrimMember]

huzza147 wrote:

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A few of us are going up on Fri morning and set up camp for the weeekend. Probably ride Fri arvo and Sat. then decide whether to pay to Ride on Sunday. As they say $150 for a one day ride is a bit steep. They closed off the early entries($125) about 6 weeks before the ride so there is no rush to enter before the day. The entries must be a bit slow as we got reminder letters in the mail today.

Mick

You blokes (& ladies) are hard to please. $150 for a 1 day ride is not much. You have a chance to win a new bike, provided with entertainment and a feed. I was in that shit-hole you call Sydney a few weeks ago and paid more than twice that for a 2 hour walk on the Harbour Bridge, so please don’t bore us with “too much money”. You seem quite happy to turn up and sponge off the event without paying to ride, why don’t you come back another weekend ??? Would be a pity for the sweeps to find you busted on the side of the track and completly ignore you because you are not a part of the event. The reason the early bird entries closed so soon was an attempt to get people off their fat arses and enter earlier so that entries can be processed and the organisers have a little bit less to do on the weekend of the event. So “no”, the entries are not slow, about 500 this far out is normal.[/quote]

Mate, I don’t sponge off your event. I have pre-entered and ridden the event for about the last 15 years bar one or two where I could not get the weekend off work as was the case this year but ended up swapping shifts to go. The rest of my mates, many that I have introduced to the rally have pre-entered as usual. I would not ride on the day without paying.
We seem to agree on one thing about Sydney anyway.
I hope you have a good weekend and rally organisers do not get too stressed. They have done a great job in the past and I am sure they will do a great job again this year.

Mick

[AlexMember]

micknmeld wrote:

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Hey Huzza, no matter how much a ride costs you are still gunna get whingers. In March I put a ride on which included a 130km of lush unmolested trails, a tank of fuel,lunch and after ride snacks and a beer or two all for the whopping cost of $25 and I still had a tosser get on here and sledge the shit out of the ride. So what do you do? You can’t please them all.

Gee Mick, Ill be in that too! Damn that’s very generous!

I don’t know about throwing the word “whinger” around so easily nowdays. Hard working families that shop at Aldi for example, I wouldn’t call whingers just because they vote with their wallets and don’t shop at Coles. A Greek friend once told me: “the idiot/fool pays the amount not charges the amount”.
Sunny Corner organisers can charge $1500 for all I care and provide golden toilet paper, I’ll spend my money elsewhere, I don’t consider that whinging, I consider it a choice not a statement.

[Mick DMember]

The $25 a head event was my birthday bash ride,every cent paid by the riders went into paying for the event,plus more out of my own pocket and it really jerked my chain when someone who only joined the site so they could take advantage of the ride got on here and whinged about having to wait on corners and having to pay to ride in State forest blah blah blah.
Then there was the bloke who came up to KTMBULL’s place,the deal was$25 per person for all your meals from lunch saturday to lunch Monday,plus the use of his MX track and his private trails.One tight arse said “I am only having lunch so here’s $5”, he then had the gaul to be there for two days and help himself to a whole box of jerky supplied by or sites sponsor,Jack Links when he left and not a word of thanks.
Like I said,there is no pleasing some pricks.

I think the word whinger was warranted in the context it was used in my previous post. There where plenty of hard doer family men on my birthday ride and they all had a ball. As a bloke with a mortgage and two kids that race, I for one can’t afford to go one every ride that is organised on here,so I vote with my wallet as to what rides I can afford the cash and brownie points to go on,it doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to go on the rides,it is a matter of economics and marital bliss.

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