Mike Murray

It should be noted that USAC over counts their membership. If you hold a
USCF and NORBA membership you count as 2 memberships. I suspect that if you
also have an officials, mechanic, etc. membership you could add up to 9
members with only one person. Counting the OBRA membership using the same
technique would make it appear much larger.

Mike Murray

From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of Seth May
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 10:25 AM
To: OBRA
Subject: [OBRA Chat] usac comparison

I was just taking a quick look at the USAC 2009 report that just came out
and thought I'd run a little comparison, for my own curiosity. I figured I'd
pass it along:

# Riders (2009)

# Events (2009)

Reference

USAC

61,972

2,638

http://bit.ly/amXY1p

OBRA

4,442

361

http://bit.ly/d4xgIy

Percent

13.6%

7.1%

For reference:

Population

USA

312 million

Oregon

3.826 million

Percent

1.2%

Awesome job everyone: promoters for making the events happen, riders for
showing and supporting, and officials for the time they spend. Also a big
thanks to the folks making things happen in OBRA (the board, Kenji, Candi,
Mike, Cheryl, Omer, Dan, and others) and for making the shared equipment and
resources available to make Oregon racing such a success.

Thanks
Seth
--
SethMay.net

Tim Schauer

Now consider that since Bend has been hosting and will continue to host
multiple disciplines of National Championship Bike Racing (Awesome BTW!), I
wonder how many of OBRA's 4442 members are also USAC dues paying members? I
would guess...25% (?) given the Cyclocross mad NW. That would no doubt make
the efficiency and health of OBRA even more impressive! I couldn't imagine
racing my bike anywhere else...I appreciate the efforts of all who support
this organization. Nobody does it better.

-Tim Schauer

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Seth May wrote:

> I was just taking a quick look at the USAC 2009 report that just came out
> and thought I'd run a little comparison, for my own curiosity. I figured I'd
> pass it along:
>
>
> *# Riders (2009)
> * *# Events (2009)
> * *Reference
> * *USAC**
> * 61,972
> 2,638
> http://bit.ly/amXY1p *OBRA**
> * 4,442
> 361
> http://bit.ly/d4xgIy *Percent
> * 13.6%
> 7.1%
>
>
> For reference:
> *
> * *Population
> * *USA
> * 312 million
> *Oregon
> * 3.826 million
> *Percent
> * 1.2%
>
> Awesome job everyone: promoters for making the events happen, riders for
> showing and supporting, and officials for the time they spend. Also a big
> thanks to the folks making things happen in OBRA (the board, Kenji, Candi,
> Mike, Cheryl, Omer, Dan, and others) and for making the shared equipment and
> resources available to make Oregon racing such a success.
>
> Thanks
> Seth
> --
> SethMay.net
>
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--
Tim Schauer
President
MacKay & Sposito, Inc.

Seth May

I was just taking a quick look at the USAC 2009 report that just came
out and thought I'd run a little comparison, for my own curiosity. I
figured I'd pass it along:

*# Riders (2009)
* *# Events (2009)
* *Reference
*
*USAC**
* 61,972
2,638
http://bit.ly/amXY1p
*OBRA**
* 4,442
361
http://bit.ly/d4xgIy
*Percent
* 13.6%
7.1%

For reference:
*
* *Population
*
*USA
* 312 million
*Oregon
* 3.826 million
*Percent
* 1.2%

Awesome job everyone: promoters for making the events happen, riders for
showing and supporting, and officials for the time they spend. Also a
big thanks to the folks making things happen in OBRA (the board, Kenji,
Candi, Mike, Cheryl, Omer, Dan, and others) and for making the shared
equipment and resources available to make Oregon racing such a success.

Thanks
Seth
--
SethMay.net