Turbo,
If you could pass this on to your Citrus crew, I would appreciate
it. If you've got any other contacts, please feel free to pass it on
to them as well.
Thanks.
I'm sure those of you who race, and keep up with the Floridacycling.com
schedule have seen races dropping (or never appearing) from the
schedule. Well, some of the venues that have been used in the past
are charging exhorbitant (and sometimes even more) permitting fees for
these events. The Spin City Crit/ Circuit races are a good
example. Flordiacycling.com is unable to hold this even because of
the required fees this year. I get the feeling, and Tim
Molyneaux has pretty much confirmed, the smaller communities
(Ferndale, Alachua, Ocala) are not following suit... yet.
So, here is where we can help out in keeping or adding events to the
calendar:
Find a place to race!! Tim mentioned criteriums by themselves
don't make enough money to hold them on their own, and generally don't have
a good showing. If a road race is attached the next day or the
previous day, it makes it profitable enough to put it on. The Ocala
crit was cancelled for 2007 because the road race course at Robert's
Farm (State RR course) is only available once a year, and Tim wants to do
the State RR at that location again this year. If we can find him
another road race location, he will be able to put on the Ocala crit and
road race once again this year.
Don't limit the location to Ocala, though!! Scott has mentioned
Alachua as a possibility, but we still need a crit course to add to his
proposed road course. Keep in mind, we cannot hold a 'real'
USCF race at the Bring It On course where we hold the pre-season crits.
The requirements for a RR course would be approximate 5 mile loop, with
adequate parking for 300 cars. Preference is for smooth roads,
of course.
Please keep in mind, this helps us by keeping or adding events to the
calendar and keeps bicycle racing ALIVE in Florida. Let's do
what we can to help.
Please either contact me or you can e-mail Tim directly with any ideas/
contacts you might have at tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you for your time, you can get back on your bike
now!