Beijing's International Fun Week (October 20, 2013)

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Here is some more information, over on WFT ...

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To register for the 210 km ride, you need to:

1) submit copies of your Driving License & legal bike registration;
2) sign a completed application form, which includes agreeing to obey the organizers;
3) be under 35 years old;
4) have at least 5 years riding experience;
5) must purchase insurance at a cost of 60 rmb/day; and,
6) three days before the event, attend a training course on distance and safety.

I'm going to take a wild guess that the expired-As and the Su H crowd will show up, anyways. Probably a few old farts, too. I wonder how these interesting requirements can be enforced on the G108? For example, if I (an old fart) just happen to do a G108 ride on that day (as I've done many times before), I wonder what will happen? Will there be a checkpoint at the start?

As this is a government-sanctioned/sponsored event, I'm also going to guess that the police will have a plan.

Interesting "Fun Week".

Training course? AKA pay some bloke who can't barely ride himself some money.
Under 35? For what reason should being over 35 exclude anyone?
Extra insurance? But it's a public road, you already have valid insurance if you are legal already.
What BS.

I'd never go anyhow, because it would be a bunch of tossers on a thinly veiled 'guanxi gaining exercise' with matching hi-hiz shirts wobbling around corners and gunning it down every straight, but the list of red-tape horse-shit is beyond crap.