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That escalated quickly...
Isn't it a valid question that "I ride many kms here and you donate money there" is a very random concept? No causality that I can see, yet we pretend there is some. Also, as @jaeyukdapbap pointed out, it might be a fairly inefficient way to raise funds. There needs to be no virtue signalling or ill-founded assumptions to ask what he/she asked. What is a bit out of line, however, is to attack the messenger and leave the topic untouched.
I see that drawing attention to a cause will get more people exposed to the idea of donating to that cause. Hence more people are likely to actually donate. Sure. This could work alright if I was at the sharp end of the race. Then the earned spotlight could be directed at the cause I want. That's a model that might have some merit. But being mid pack and only harvesting the attention of people who know me already is hardly any good for raising funds.
Maybe if I had some followers already and I got them interested in a personal challenge, then they might donate to the cause of my choice as a way of thanking me for carrying out the experiment that they wanted to see (e.g. going from a couch potato to a mid-pack finisher). I wouldn't really be interested in this, but maybe people are? No idea.
What other models are there that help explain the superficially nonsensical "I'll do A and you donate money to Z"?
Cheers
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I don't think it's the way you're articulating yourself that's the problem. It's the unwarranted and ill-founded assumptions combined with copious virtue-signalling that's more of an issue.