But worth every penny think how lost you'd be without a programme....and there's not always a shoulder to look over guilty! with printing costs etc; I don't suppose they are making a big profit anyway. Buy one, look after it, take it home and i'm sure there's an OAP in your village that used to be a keen motorcyclist that would be highly delighted to have a read
A 25% price increase is a touch steep given the current times - I can imagine a group buying one between them. For the Irish meetings, I can understand a £10 charge for a programme, even a one day meeting as by and large they won't get more than a few hundred travelling from afar, but when 20-30 thousand people are paying an arm and a leg to get there...............just hope there's decent sidecar coverage in the reading.
It's one of the big bonuses of marshalling - we get a free programme in our packs. Gives us something to read when we're stuck on the mountain with no racing, no toilets and no refreshments for hours on end!
A quick THANK YOU in advance to Muriel in the TTMA Office, Alan, Terry, Liz and everyone who makes sure we marshals do get looked after though, it's a thankless job herding cats into string bags and I think they do it brilliantly
Anne
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£15 probably isnt that steep for an event that lasts 2 weeks,but ontop of your rediculess travel costs and accomadation etc probably the iceing on the cake
At £15 I'm going to think hard before buying one (heck that's 1/1000 of my next F2 )
At £10 I probably would not have blinked.
Chris Wells
Ottawa, Canada
2015 IOM TT Compeitor
2014 Pikes Peak Competitor
2013 SRA East F2 Championship (Driver)
2013 SRA East Overall 2nd Place (Driver)
2012 & 2011 SRA East F1 Championship (Driver)
2010 MRE F2 with Yamaha R6 (SOLD)
2007 CSR F1 with 05 Honda CBR1000RR (SOLD)
1990 Honda VFR750F
2001 Suzuki RM250
Chris, I'll give you the extra fiver.. you'll wish you'd bought one when you get home mate
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