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For those interested in PBP, this is a recent message from the head of ACP.

I would like to thank you one more time for another great BRM season. We
are not yet at the end but the results are already very good. It will be
the second or the third season for the number of homologations with more
than 36000 homologated brevets outside France.

Of course, 2013 will stay forever as a sad year with the passing of
Robert Lepertel, creator of the BRM outside France in 1976 and first
president of the Randonneurs Mondiaux in 1983, a towering figure in the
sport of randonneuring. For 2014, the Audax Club Parisien will create
brevet cards dedicated to Bob.

It was also a sad year for some of our BRM organizers. The Audax Club
Parisien thanks them all for all they have done to spread the
randonneuring ethos.

2013 was also a great year with several new ACP representatives
implementing BRM in their country. We were pleased to welcome in 2013
Belarus, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Colombia and some others are
closed to join us soon.

We have now to work on our calendar for 2014. You have to know that we
will use the BRM validated in 2014 for the preregistration for PBP 2015,
as we did in 2011 (the longest you rode in 2014, the soonest you can
preregister). However, there won’t be quotas per country, only a global
number of entries. In 2011, we had many available places. It should be
the same in 2015 but we have to prevent ourselves from a too large
demand. There is no maximum decided yet but it could be from 6000 to
6500 riders, roughly 1000 more than the numbers of riders in 2011. About
PBP, we are still uncertain for the date of the event in 2015. It will
be held on August 16th to 20th or 23th to 27th. A decision will be taken
in January 2014.

Best regards,

Jean-Gualbert FABUREL

Audax Club Parisien