just when i was going to post a rant about the nrc...
what the hell... its still valid...
i love the nrc thing... its such a shitty deal that i cant believe it... you pay all this money and you have all this stuff you have to do and the your race gets on the super cool nrc.. and what do you get?... nothing really.. some pros maybe might come cuz they can get some points... and we all know that pro bikers are so cool that if they come to your race then your race must be cool by association of all these cool pro bikers...
i dont mind the concept of paying to be in the nrc but i just dont think you get much for it at all... you will get more out of being a cyclesafe.org race... so lets have a cyclesafe.org calendar where you have to go to be cool...
blah blah blah...
if we i want pro bikers to come to my race i would rather just put that money i pay to the nrc into paying teams to come and waiving entries and working a deal on free lodging... make it for the up and comers and the small teams who dont have opportunities to race some events... our race is maybe gonna be nrc next year the day after b of a... we will see... for me i am more concerned about the overall competitiveness of the event and an even field with more riders who can possibly win than with trying to lure one or two bigger teams to stomp everone... that time of the year the nrc gets thin for participation... its gonna be one of those things that we might just do... but it wont stop me from thinking its stupid... or from pushing usa cycling to provide more of a return to us who are puttin gon the events...
that alone wont buy us legitimacy i dont think... and i would rather see an event thats a community event for the people... i dont think that we need nrc status to do that... and i think that the pro race this past year we had was plenty exciting without nrc points...
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Right on Saunders. I was considering making my race an NRC, even spoke with a USAC rep about it. But the answer is obvious, how does paying USAC even more money to get NRC status make my race a better event? I like your idea of simply taking that money and using it to bring smaller up and coming teams in, or, take that extra money and use it for a second event on the same weekend. My race is in the PNW and having 2 $5000 races on the same weekend on the left coast where prize money is lame is a good way to get teams thinking about coming.
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