Eroica comes to Peak District in 2014

From road.cc:
Eroica comes to Peak District in 2014

A British version of Italy’s famous Eroica event is to be staged in the Peak District on June 22, 2014.

Like its Italian parent, L'Eroica Britannia will be restricted to riders on pre-1987 bikes, which means down tube shifters and almost certainly no carbon fiber.

The ride will be part of a three-day festival of cycling over the weekend on June 20-22 and will offer : 30, 60 and 100 miles, with the rest of the weekend devoted to a festival of cycling.

Entry fee is £55 for the first 500 riders and £70 thereafter. You will be expected to provide your own insurance.

The originsl l'Eroica is run on Italy's famous 'strada bianchi' white gravel roads. The British edition will start and finish in Bakewell and will use a mixture of dirt roads and minor roads, including the Monsal Trails and private roads on the Duke of Devonshire's Chatsworth Estate.

While the Italian Eroica is a race, the British edition will be more of a vintage sportive celebrating the ‘heroic’ era of bikes and bike racing (hence the name - ‘eroica’ is Italian for ‘heroic’)

To keep things heroic, therefore, other equipment rules include a restriction to steel frames except Alan and Vitus aluminium; road racing bikes only - no cyclo-cross or mountain bikes - and clip and strap pedals unless you’re brave enough to take to the open road in a pair of Cinelli M71s.

Some of the road.cc crew are on their way back from this year’s Eroica, which happened yesterday, and report that the equipment rules are enforced in spirit rather than to the letter. It’s to be hoped UK organisers take the same attitude.

For more information see l’Eroica Brittannia.

I've checked out the website for this event and thought about riding my 1971 Condor Italia...but at £55 it sounds rather expensive to cycle the local roads which you can ride on for free, besides the Condor has only 5 gears, so I'd have to walk up all the hills!! Will definitely go out to watch it though!

does seem a tad expensive, especially if you don't enter quick as it will then be £70