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It is sad but true that the BBAR is not what it used to be.
It is worth remembering that this competition was originally started by 'Cycling' (as Cycling Weekly then styled itself). Naturally there was a lot of coverage in the magazine, which at the time delared itself to be 'the leading cycling journal of the world'. Whether this claim was valid may be debatable, but it would certainly have seemed true to pre-war British cyclists.
To have full coverage of your efforts every week in such a publication was a tremendous spur to competition generally and the BBAR in particular.
Since CW has pretty much lost interest, the competition has gradually gone down hill. However in the age of the internet, journalism is at least partially democratised. It's up to us to write about the events that interest us and to publish where ever we can.
I've done what I could do in recent years but more activity is needed, and from younger people than me.