Just got back into cycling after many years. It has improved my health and I feel 20 years younger.
I have a large selection of patches from all the centurys I rode in the 80s. I've been on quite a few in the past two years and found out nobody gives patches anymore. I was hoping to expand my collection. When and why did this practice stop?

They give out medals now. Not sure how that came about....

The most recent patch I have is for the Beast of the East ride in 1993, after that most events started giving out t-shirts. One reason I miss the patches is that they were very easy to store or display, now I have two drawers filled with t-shirts from the various rides over the years. Eventually I'll send them to one of these people who can cut up the shirts and make a nice quilt with them, then I'll just have to figure out where to hang the quilt

The Sea Gull Century still has 'em
https://www.seagullcenturystore.com/p...atid=104&sid=0

The Woodstock Century gave them out last year. Out of the dozen local centuries I've done, that was the only one.

I think 5BBC gives out patches to anyone who completes all five perimeter rides.