<img src="/media/goride-sm.jpg" width="200" height="177" align="left" hspace="5">For the 2003 and 2004 season, USA Cycling and NORBA have been employing a policy that pays out a cash purse of exactly zero dollars to the pro podium in any discipline of mountain bike racing.* As incentive to race is dwindling, more and more major companies are pulling their support of racing and focusing it on the freeride market.* This may not be a bad scenario for the MTB industry in general, but it does put a damper on certain types of R&D, and takes a lot of the competitiveness (and thus some of the fun) out of high-level racing.* And when the numbers of professional racers start dropping, the number of up-and-coming racers begin to dwindle as well.
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