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Subject: BGSA?

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Joel

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Date Posted: 01:27:35 07/31/02 Wed

Hi

A couple of questions about the BGSA, I guess your the one to reply to this Chris.

Does it exist yet, or is it still on the drawing board? I searched for BGSA on Google and it turned up the Black Graduates Student Association, lol.

If the BGSA does not yet exist how are the UK rider rankings worked out? Is it from international races or the races and meets that happen arround the country? BGSA events would better provide clear rankings for UK rider who cannot race abroad etc.

What will the BGSA provide? I beleive you have already mentioned insurance, the No.1 reason for such an organisation, but what else? Ian has sugested a supplys store, a great idea, and would cut down costs. It may be worth looking into how much a freindly farmer would charge for the hire of a disused old small barn/shed to store equipment, my dad has done this and it wasn't much.

Would there be a national rankings system? Further to previous discussions on this board setting up the BGSA, or some other groupe of letters to do with gravity sports, is a good step towards a race series. Great.

Finally what the damage likley to be? Remember that joining such an organisation needs to be of visible benefit to the riders, over the season it needs to work out cheaper to join than pay the non-members race fees. In an ideal world ppl would pay more just to support the organisation for long term benefit, but lets face it, that's unlikley to happen.

I think such an organisation would do wonders for the racing in this country, but it will need the races to back it up. Let me know if I can help with anything, tho I am in the middle of moving down to Bournemouth for my final year of uni at the moment.

Thanks for your time

Joel

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