May 25 Update

Mark Thomas has offered a few reminders to PBP aspirants concerning upcoming registration deadlines:


May 29 - Preregistration for riders who rode a 200km ACP brevet (or longer) in 2010
- Starts midnight Paris time (6pm on 5/28 here on the east coast)

June 11 - Registration begins (presumably midnight Paris time, so evening of 6/10 here)
- Preregistered riders start final registration
- Non-preregistered riders may also register if there are quota spaces available (likely)

June 19 - Pre-registered riders lose their priority space if not yet registered
- This may free up national quota to allow more non-preregistered riders to register on June 20

July 17 - Registration deadline
- Riders who registered without all of their 2011 brevet homologation numbers must provide them by July 17

As of May 24, 442 US riders had completed their registerations. Due to the projected US totals, RUSA returned 50 pre-registration spaces to the ACP for use by other countries. The total US allocation is now 669. There are still plenty of spaces available for those wanting to ride PBP.

Pre-Registration Update

As of May 9, 421 of the 719 US allocation for PBP entries have been "reserved." If you rode as much as an ACP 400k in 2010 and want to ride in France this summer, you can pre-register now. Riders who completed an ACP 300k in 2010 will be able to begin pre-registering on May 15. Riders who completed an ACP 200k in 2010 will be permitted to pre-register on May 29. The current trends indicate that there may well be spaces in the US allocation remaining after all RUSA members who completed even a single ACP brevet in 2010 have pre-registered. Riders who didn't ride any ACP brevets in 2010 and want to go to PBP should pre-register beginning on June 11. (I recall one our own PA Randonneurs went to the 2007 PBP in his first season of randonneuring, so it's not an uncommon situation.)

All pre-registrants are reminded to complete their registration by June 19. Incomplete registration spaces and any remain unreserved spaces will be opened to the world on June 20.

Reflective Vest Order Update

The order for reflective vests is going to be placed very soon. An updated listing of orders to date is provided below. Please review it and let Don Jagel (dj@talloakfarm.com) or Ron Anderson (rwanderson@optonline.net) if there are any changes.

Please send your payment check in to Ron so we can place the order. The cost of the vest each vest is $35. If you would like the vest sent to you, add $5 to cover shipping.

Make the check out to: PA Randonneurs LLC

Mail payment to:

Ron Anderson
881 Ritz Avenue
Hamilton, NJ 08610

Reflective Vests Update

We are going to placing the order for the reflective vests soon after the PA 400K Brevet on April 30. The price will be $35, and shipping will be $5. It will also be possible to pick up the vests at a PA Rondonneurs event and save the shipping fee. Vest payment can be made at the 400K, or you can mail a check to:

Ron Anderson
881 Ritz Avenue
Hamilton, NJ 08610

Make checks out to: PA Randonneurs LLC

Sample vests will be available to try on at the 400K Brevet this weekend. One person who tried on a sample vest recently did have a problem with the bottom of one of the zippers, but believed it was likely caused by the number of people that have been trying on the samples. John Lee Ellis has posted his impressions of the vest here: http://coloradobrevets.blogspot.com/2011/04/rusa-offers-pbp-conformant-vest.html

The PA Randonneurs vests will have the new PA Randonneurs logo, designed by Bob Dye on the left breast pocket area, and say PA Randonneurs on the back. These are the final graphics from the vest manufacturer.

Orders received for the PA Randonneurs vests so far are summarized below. Please let me know if there are any changes or additions ( dj@talloakfarm.com ).

PBP Pre-Registration Speculation

Are you getting caught up in "PBP Fever" but concerned that you wont have a shot since you didn't ride any long brevets last year? Fear not, you may still have a chance for the grand dance. Mark Thomas continues his analysis of US pre-registration data and trends:

April 20: Working on the US PBP pre-registrations, I'm getting more optimistic that riders who did not ride brevets in 2010 will have the opportunity to participate in PBP 2011.

Our US quota is 719.

RUSA had 328 riders who did 1000km or longer brevets in 2010. So far 64% of those have preregistered for PBP (210 riders).
RUSA had 418 riders whose longest brevet was 600km in 2010. So far 157 have signed up.


Speculation zone ahead:

If the signup pattern for the 600k group matches that of the first group, I'd expect to see about 185 riders (45%) sign up from this group.
Of the 238 riders whose longest brevet was 400km in 2010, I'm guessing that 40% (95 riders) will preregister.
Of the 277 riders whose longest brevet was 300km in 2010, I'm guessing that 30% (83 riders) will preregister.
Of the 488 riders whose longest brevet was 200km in 2010, I'm guessing that 20% (97 riders) will preregister.
That's a total of 670 preregistering riders, leaving nearly 50 slots for US riders who didn't do any brevets in 2010.

Advance Registration, Step 2

Just a reminder to those who rode an ACP 600k event in 2010, the pre-registration window for you opens this weekend (April 17th). As of Wednesday afternoon (4/13), 207 of the 719 USA registrations have been reserved.

PA Randonneurs (PBP Style) Reflective Vests

An online order form for the PA Randonneurs (PBP Style) Reflective Vests is available at:

http://www.talloakfarm.com/phpFormGenerator/use/vest/Vorder.html

As mentioned in a previous post the price is still being determined, but is expected to be $35+/-. If you have any questions, or problems with the form let Don know at dj@talloakfarm.com. Once you hit the submit button at the bottom of the form it automatically sends the info, and there is nothing else you need to do.

More information will be posted as it becomes available.