Discussion: Bimbache Extreme RD Flees with Money
in: Adventure Racing; General
Sep 10, 2013 3:05 PM
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Bash:
Wow, here's a new one!
http://www.sleepmonsters.com/v2_races.php?article_...
http://www.sleepmonsters.com/v2_races.php?article_...
Sep 10, 2013 3:31 PM
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Bash:
As an AR organizer, the most shocking part of the story for me is that an event made enough money that it was worth stealing it. I guess he didn't pay many expenses before he left though.
Sep 10, 2013 4:25 PM
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I thought I saw something about this posted on fb by one of the competing teams and thought is was a joke. Wow!!!
Sep 11, 2013 2:24 PM
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It's awesome to see racers take it in stride and jump on board to race. There is always an adventure, but this is a new spin. I love this sport.
Sep 11, 2013 4:24 PM
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Bash:
From Antonio de la Rosa, the former RD of Bimbache Extreme, who stepped in at the last minute to save his beloved race after new owner Manual Satue fled. Antonio is preparing to row across the Atlantic, as he references below.
This is from Google Translate - or see Facebook for original Spanish.
https://www.facebook.com/aventurasdelcali/posts/10...
After two days without sleep, I got a while and I need to write this, best hot now . Maximum Pleaseee dissemination .
Sometimes you have to REALITY FICTION CAN OVERCOME and you think ... going , it will be less ... because the Bimbache Extrem 2013 will enter the annals of adventure as a case " extraordinary."
As many know more than 1 year ago I visited a person named Manel Satue with the intention of buying the license to organize Bimbache for 4 years.
He arrived in Madrid on a flight that must have cost a lot of money , round trip in 3 hours, talk about Money and conditions, picture, signed a preliminary agreement and told him to go on the first thing to do was pay the entry fee of ARWS , 5000 euros. The next day the payment.
Very excited that it would be a big deal , that Bimbache regain life after 2010 , where it was the World Championship , and the product was created with such passion and love remain in a 9th edition , biennnn .
Even though I was out of the event , I suggested working with "them" since according Manuel was a working group of very good, my only advice would work , which I was fine to devote to organizing World Costa Rica , my company and my expeditions .
Months pass , more and costs more contact , I make 2 trips to see how things go always good words , always cheating, but hey, I 'm trusting ...
2 months ago traveled to Playa D'aro pissed , equipment contact me with no information , receive news , etc ... and I ask myself is it a scam, be gone with the money of the equipment and will stay like ass ? ? ? ? .
I stand in Playa Daro and know your father , charming, sleep at home, a mansion in Castell daro that must be worth a fortune , your own business, a center of bicycle next , etc. .. Then I think ... a good, you should see what I'm getting suspicious ... jur jur.
The days are coming , I have to be missing little things clear , I come a few days before to solve, and " plugging holes ... it will not be the great Bimbache but hey ....
Start organizing people missing , it creates an aura of bad feeling , many people who say that Manel is unpresentable , chasing him for 3 days to give me the final maps , road book , etc ... I say ... that I have " something of experience " may be able to find fault and have time to fix it.
24 hours left for the start of the test, everyone will start searching, I find that a lot of , well, all people are paying for things that your credit cards never work , there are volunteers who have advanced to 1000 EUROS , jooooderrr .
Turns out it's gone with his bicycle has find money , said he will balance cards with 10,000 euros , maps, etc ... everyone was looking for , is the 1 o'clock , 2 o'clock, I go to her house , no one , mountain bike center , either, no phone, oh, oh, oh, that raroooo.Le looking even beach sports director Daro , nothing.
About 4 in the afternoon we met we are , and we begin to ask that we have to organize the test without it.
Maps and routes we barely know , even getting 50 boxes of mountain bikes that he would bring to the team , is a holiday in Catalonia, a single logistics truck for a test with 18 teams from around the world , 72 bikes, 40 drums 220 liters , etc. .. this if it is a challenge and rowing across the Atlantic ...
Manel Satue this on the run , has been money, all to left dislikes, debt , family, work , but also have thought that had the illusion of many people to live this experience and GREAT ADVENTURE BIMBACHE called , as NO, we cojido the bull by the horns as they say in my neighborhood, yesterday began the test, everything runs smoothly , the City Hall of Playa Daro is sticking up and paying the costs that arise, great merit in the present moment and how are public institutions and politics ... everyone is giving 200% and desmultiplicándose if necessary , teams have an understanding with what happened out of the ordinary and once again shows that the world raider this is made of a special subject , of sterner ...
Manel , wherever you are ! DEN YOU ! !
This is from Google Translate - or see Facebook for original Spanish.
https://www.facebook.com/aventurasdelcali/posts/10...
After two days without sleep, I got a while and I need to write this, best hot now . Maximum Pleaseee dissemination .
Sometimes you have to REALITY FICTION CAN OVERCOME and you think ... going , it will be less ... because the Bimbache Extrem 2013 will enter the annals of adventure as a case " extraordinary."
As many know more than 1 year ago I visited a person named Manel Satue with the intention of buying the license to organize Bimbache for 4 years.
He arrived in Madrid on a flight that must have cost a lot of money , round trip in 3 hours, talk about Money and conditions, picture, signed a preliminary agreement and told him to go on the first thing to do was pay the entry fee of ARWS , 5000 euros. The next day the payment.
Very excited that it would be a big deal , that Bimbache regain life after 2010 , where it was the World Championship , and the product was created with such passion and love remain in a 9th edition , biennnn .
Even though I was out of the event , I suggested working with "them" since according Manuel was a working group of very good, my only advice would work , which I was fine to devote to organizing World Costa Rica , my company and my expeditions .
Months pass , more and costs more contact , I make 2 trips to see how things go always good words , always cheating, but hey, I 'm trusting ...
2 months ago traveled to Playa D'aro pissed , equipment contact me with no information , receive news , etc ... and I ask myself is it a scam, be gone with the money of the equipment and will stay like ass ? ? ? ? .
I stand in Playa Daro and know your father , charming, sleep at home, a mansion in Castell daro that must be worth a fortune , your own business, a center of bicycle next , etc. .. Then I think ... a good, you should see what I'm getting suspicious ... jur jur.
The days are coming , I have to be missing little things clear , I come a few days before to solve, and " plugging holes ... it will not be the great Bimbache but hey ....
Start organizing people missing , it creates an aura of bad feeling , many people who say that Manel is unpresentable , chasing him for 3 days to give me the final maps , road book , etc ... I say ... that I have " something of experience " may be able to find fault and have time to fix it.
24 hours left for the start of the test, everyone will start searching, I find that a lot of , well, all people are paying for things that your credit cards never work , there are volunteers who have advanced to 1000 EUROS , jooooderrr .
Turns out it's gone with his bicycle has find money , said he will balance cards with 10,000 euros , maps, etc ... everyone was looking for , is the 1 o'clock , 2 o'clock, I go to her house , no one , mountain bike center , either, no phone, oh, oh, oh, that raroooo.Le looking even beach sports director Daro , nothing.
About 4 in the afternoon we met we are , and we begin to ask that we have to organize the test without it.
Maps and routes we barely know , even getting 50 boxes of mountain bikes that he would bring to the team , is a holiday in Catalonia, a single logistics truck for a test with 18 teams from around the world , 72 bikes, 40 drums 220 liters , etc. .. this if it is a challenge and rowing across the Atlantic ...
Manel Satue this on the run , has been money, all to left dislikes, debt , family, work , but also have thought that had the illusion of many people to live this experience and GREAT ADVENTURE BIMBACHE called , as NO, we cojido the bull by the horns as they say in my neighborhood, yesterday began the test, everything runs smoothly , the City Hall of Playa Daro is sticking up and paying the costs that arise, great merit in the present moment and how are public institutions and politics ... everyone is giving 200% and desmultiplicándose if necessary , teams have an understanding with what happened out of the ordinary and once again shows that the world raider this is made of a special subject , of sterner ...
Manel , wherever you are ! DEN YOU ! !
Sep 11, 2013 4:56 PM
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Yikes! I wonder if the final leg of the race is called "Tar and Feather Manel".
Sep 11, 2013 6:45 PM
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Like one of the team write-ups said: A room full of fit, strong people at their peak... yikes, look out.
Wow, huge kudos to Antonia and others who have pitched in for the even-bigger challenge of pulling something together at the last minute, and the racers with their great attitudes and understanding.
I hope this ends up being one of those experiences that somehow turns out to be even more meaningful and enjoyable
(and if not, then tar and feather Manel ;)
Wow, huge kudos to Antonia and others who have pitched in for the even-bigger challenge of pulling something together at the last minute, and the racers with their great attitudes and understanding.
I hope this ends up being one of those experiences that somehow turns out to be even more meaningful and enjoyable
(and if not, then tar and feather Manel ;)
Sep 11, 2013 6:46 PM
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Or maybe the tar-and-feathering opportunity could be the highly desirable prize awarded to the winning team :)
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