Originally Posted by sdmc530

I am going to chime in here with a personal experience with the folks at MS.

We had a good MS ride in my home town. Supported very well by the local shops for the stops and such. I was involved as a volunteer in the planning and getting it set up. It had been run for years. Cost was I think 35$ to ride and I believe it was $150 minimum.

Anyways two years ago they decided to cancel the ride. I wrote letters and called the MS office. They said it wasn't "profitable" their words anymore to have the event. We had a couple hundred people ride. Yearly fundraising numbers were about 40-45K a year give or take. I was told by the MS president that if it doesn't raise 65K its not worth their time and if I wanted to continue the ride we could do it alone without their help.

So if the entry fee pays for the event the rest of the money is for the charity, why were we cancelled. Because we were not profitable enough? They are getting greedy IMO! Our entry fee's covered out events and then some!

I did pay my own way 100% for the event because I didn't want to fundraise the money. We always enjoyed the ride and such, but now I am turned off by the pay to ride for charity events as well. I have done others still because I believe in some causes but I still think some of the event owners are forgetting what's its about. Charity events are important I believe still but sometimes they need to remember the FREE money raised from good people keep them going.....