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The Flèche Vélocio is not a race. Each rider is considered to be on a personal ride and must ride in accordance with all applicable traffic regulations and obey all traffic signals. The ACP cannot and does not accept responsibility for any accident that may occur during a Flèche Vélocio.
Teams choose the route that will lead them to the meeting. The team captain must send a proposal with detailed route and time schedule to the ACP organizer. The distance traveled is calculated on the basis of the shortest route between checkpoints that can be determined with Michelin maps. No shortcuts or detours from the route are allowed.
Before the start, each rider must note on his or her brevet card last name, first name, full address and club affiliation. During the Flèche, riders need to keep the cards with them and note the start and finish time as well as the time of passage at all designated controls. Time includes date, hour and minutes.
Missing brevet card validations, missing checkpoint times, or loss of a brevet card will result in disqualification of the team. Teams must start from the point declared in the ride schedule. Teams choose their starting date and time between Friday 06:00 a.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. It is mandatory that they start at the declared date and time.
In their ride schedule, each team must indicate an intended finish point, but this point is not binding. The aim of the Flèche Vélocio is not to reach a particular spot, but to ride during 24 hours towards the meeting place. The actual finish point will be the nearest town or village where the team members can get their card verified at the end of their 24 hours. The team will be homologated if they have achieved a distance within plus or minus 20% of what they declared at registration (with an absolute minimum of 360 km), regardless of their actual arriving location.
Different teams cannot ride together. If several teams use the same starting point and the same route, the starting times for individual teams shall be spaced at least one hour apart.
Teams must have their location and time verified at the starting point and at each designated control, by getting a stamp on their brevet card at a local establishment (such as a grocery store or gas station). In the case of a postcard verification (between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.), location and time must be noted on the postcard, and all members still riding must sign the postcard. Will also be accepted as proof of control a credit card receipt or a photo of the group of participants with an element (eg road sign) justifying the place.
During the 22nd hour and at the end of the 24th hour, the exact time and the location of the team must be noted on each route card and verified in any encountered town or village. A minimum of 25 kilometers must be ridden between both verifications. It is not necessary that teams reach their announced finish point or that they stop there. The recorded location at the end of the 24th hour will be recognized for their homologation (so long as 25 km have been covered since the 22nd hour control).
The goal of the Flèche Vélocio being to ride the longest distance possible in 24 hours, the team must ride until the end of the 24th hour. If they cannot find a way to get verification at that point, they must ride further to the next town or village, get their card stamped and note on it the mileage covered at the end of the 24th hour.
Example : You start Saturday at 9h a.m. You must get your card stamped Sunday at 7h (22th hour) and then, at least 25 km further, at 9h (24th hour). You can get verification in any encountered town or village, even if they are different from those planned on your ride schedule. It is 9h a.m., you have ridden 420 km but you are in the countryside, 10 km from the next town. You must ride to this town, get your card stamped and note on it ‘420 km’ at the 24th hour.
The team will be homologated if the distance covered is within plus or minus 20% of their announced mileage (with an absolute minimum of 360 km). For example, if you design a 450 km route, you must ride between 360 and 540 km.
No following cars are allowed. Teams can meet a support car only at the rest stops. No rest stop may exceed two hours.
For night riding, bikes must be equipped with front and rear lights attached firmly to the bike. Lights must be turned on at all times during hours of darkness or other low-light conditions (rain, fog, etc.). During hours of darkness or other low-light conditions, all riders must wear a reflective vest (this is mandatory according to French traffic law). Any violation of these night riding rules will result in the immediate disqualification of the team. Backup lighting systems are strongly recommended in case the primary system fails and cannot be repaired on the roadside. It is strongly recommended to wear an approved helmet, light-colored clothes, and to carry a survival blanket and a cell phone.
Event officials may be on the road, acting as secret controllers. Each irregularity will be pointed out and result in the immediate disqualification of the team.
If a change occurs in the composition of the team, the organizer must be notified before the start.