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UMCA should clarify the rules and maybe even up the fee to $600 and provide the SPOT tracker as part of the fee (dropping back to $300 if the rider already has their own SPOT). The fee could include membership for the duration of the attempt too.
I think $300 is amazingly good value given that it covers the entire year. Surely a UMCA official will spend much more time in total invigilating each attempt than $300 of minimum wage would buy.
Nick.Earthloop
From the correspondance released it looks like they told him his tracking solution wasn't good enough on the 30th December. No idea whether there was earlier correspondance on this. At least they were willing to let him start whilst he got a SPOT tracker sorted, but he refused to.
In more recent FB posts Bruce has said he doesn't like the idea of everyone being able to tell where he is all the time (he didn't have a problem with UMCA people knowing where he is at any time). If he doesn't get over this then he'll never get UMCA on his side as that seems to be a key requirement for them so that the public can go out and try and find him on the road.
UMCA should clarify the rules and maybe even up the fee to $600 and provide the SPOT tracker as part of the fee (dropping back to $300 if the rider already has their own SPOT). The fee could include membership for the duration of the attempt too.