The aba and the nbl need to be forced to work together…

dave

nice idea– too bad it will never happen–

I gotta disagree with you. If enough people (And not just us) The whole bmx community world wide would work together, I am sure it could happen. I do forsee a problem getting the the whole bmx world together.
How come freestylers can do there thing but we can’t. As T.M. The one thing i will instill is we (racers) do not bow down to the sanctions, they bow to us.

its been 30 years they been around and the almost 20 years I raced they never gave in and never will.

Brett.. the concept is a great one and as with you and many before you have brought up the valid points that are pure facts. Without unity that will never happen and without certain people sticking there heads out there saying HEY. This never will change. Its a shame that BMX is going to extinguish itself. Its funny how after all these years that BMX is an Olympic sport and we are doing nothing to ride that wave. Race count locally is down and instead of making the sport look cool on a National and local basis they are making it look like a joke. Many volunteers now and prior have done alot to do what they can to help grow the sport but ts just a shame that the organiztions couldn’t work together and PUT BMX back on the map.. Both organizations need to get the right people in place and once those people are in place the need to surround themselves with more right people and all have one thing in mind Making BMX what it was and needs to be…

The split away … was spurred by a group of activist … who had grown disenchanted with what they saw as an inept sanctioning body. Complaining of poor promotion and small purses, this group coalesced around …what came to be known as the “…White Paper”, the blueprint for an organization …. . The white paper called for the owners to form an advocacy group to promote … national championship, doing the job where the sanctioning body wouldn’t. The group would also work to negotiate television rights and race purses, and ideally hold seats on …(the) governing body. … team owners… took their demands to (the)board and the proposal was rejected.

rejection of the proposal led to the three owners to form a new series … under the principles laid out in the White Paper. The new series quickly gained the support of the majority of team and track owners, …

Who? What? CART-Championship Auto Racing Teams. While in the end it didn’t quite turn out the way it could have, here was a group of car owners who had enough and DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
nuff said.

You know I just checked out your BMXL site. I have to say this is a great concept. You are right it could work but it needs one person to or shall i say one or two tracks to take the leep and then make it succeed and start global domination one step at a time. With the right people in place this could work. It really could. i think one of the posts put it right its just going to take one track and build from there. The kids that grew up racing BMX that stuck around and the ones that returned because they missed the passion all are in positions to help make this work. its going to take a united front to make this come together. You need anything at all you contact me i know alot of people that could help make this thing work from both inside the industry as well as outside. A few good corporate sponsors could make the other organizations really take another look at this. With the propper media exposure and other such plans in place could really put BMX in the position it needs to be in.. Especially with the Olympics coming. You shoud see what the other countries are doing for they’re teams… You know what I am saying. you need anything you let me know..