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NORBA HATES YOU

You may remember the shirts/phrase from Decline/Littermag's coverage of Littermag's Single Slalom World Champs of America, well here's your chance to get your very own piece of the action and help our growing US and local gravity series grow. We don't need another NORBA.

Tees available in limited quantities sizes med, lrg and xl

check the site for all purchasing info

Your friends at NORBA HATES YOU
 
jonKranked

jonKranked

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before I pass judgment on the price, the site mentions "help our growing US and local gravity series grow". How exactly (if at all) are any of the proceeds from sales going to do this? is any of the money going into a series? if so, what series?
 
IH8Rice

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jonKranked said:
before I pass judgment on the price, the site mentions "help our growing US and local gravity series grow". How exactly (if at all) are any of the proceeds from sales going to do this? is any of the money going into a series? if so, what series?
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its gonna help pay for his entree fees for USAC races :D
 
fro biker

fro biker

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i bought one. why? b/c i wanted one way back when they originally came out and couldn't get one. vintage/retro? maybe. funny? certainly. Ally? she seems nice. is it time for a change? definitely.
 
Metal Dude

Metal Dude

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monkeyfcuker said:
I feel like I'm missin out on a bitchfest, anyone care to fill me in with a backstory about Norba/USAC? Bored today, I wanna hate too!
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Let's just put it this way, the reputation the National Offroad Bicycle Association had was so bad... they changed the name!
You can change the name but, damn it still sucks us all dry!
Prob. half responsible for the state of the lack there of participation
in National MTB racing. There used to be a series of Nationals yah know,
With over 3000 competitors racing Mountain Bikes.
They are socialist now and hold us down! They just want us to
survive enough to pluck the few that they think are fast enough for the road.
 
Gary

Gary

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Monkeyfcuker - almost the same story as the UK.

BCF (British Cycling Federation) happily Bled mtbers of their hardearned for years (as we're forced to have a license and membership to race at any decent level) but choose to plow it into our hopeless Road squads instead of mtb.. funnily enough a few years back they also re-branded their name to just "BC". AFAIK They now put a little more into mtb but mainly XC as it has olympic status.
It's pathetic, UK DH races aren't even run by them anymore, back When I started racing DH Nationals were actually run by BCF affiliated mtb clubs along with BCF officials and subsidised by the BCF. our National series isn't even called "National" anymore! Ironicaly we as a nation are more sucessful in DH than we'll ever be at any other discipline but all they seem to care about are lame ****ing olympic medals..
 
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Steve M

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Gary said:
Monkeyfcuker - almost the same story as the UK.

BCF (British Cycling Federation) happily Bled mtbers of their hardearned for years (as we're forced to have a license and membership to race at any decent level) but choose to plow it into our hopeless Road squads instead of mtb.. funnily enough a few years back they also re-branded their name to just "BC". AFAIK They now put a little more into mtb but mainly XC as it has olympic status.
It's pathetic, UK DH races aren't even run by them anymore, back When I started racing DH Nationals were actually run by BCF affiliated mtb clubs along with BCF officials and subsidised by the BCF. our National series isn't even called "National" anymore! Ironicaly we as a nation are more sucessful in DH than we'll ever be at any other discipline but all they seem to care about are lame ****ing olympic medals..
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Look at the reality of the situation though - more people ride and race road bikes than mountain bikes, and FAR more people ride/race road/XC than DH. DH racing is a niche sport, comparable to ski racing or something (though without as much money in it), and the investments in it by various national cycling federations reflect that. All we're really bitching about most of the time is that our favourite sport is in fact fairly unpopular in the grand scheme of things and receives **** all funding as a result. Imagine if half the top 10 trials riders in the world happened to come from your country, would you actually expect your national cycling body to be spending all its money on those guys instead of on the road/XC squads? Of course not - hardly anybody actually pays attention to the competition results regardless of how good your countrymen are at it.
 
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Gary

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Socket said:
Look at the reality of the situation though - more people ride and race road bikes than mountain bikes
this just isn't true in the UK

and FAR more people ride/race road/XC than DH.
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or this

DH racing is a niche sport, comparable to ski racing or something (though without as much money in it), and the investments in it by various national cycling federations reflect that. All we're really bitching about most of the time is that our favourite sport is in fact fairly unpopular in the grand scheme of things and receives **** all funding as a result.
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agreed

Imagine if half the top 10 trials riders in the world happened to come from your country, (and say your national road/XC squads had no hope of ever getting close to the top 10?) would you actually expect your national cycling body to be spending all its money on those guys instead of on the road/XC squads? Of course not - hardly anybody actually pays attention to the competition results regardless of how good your countrymen are at it.
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not all of their money, no.. but enough for them not to have to pay their own way to compete rather than sending no hopers all over the world for free, yeah. That's obviously just me tho, eh?
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Gary said:
Socket said:
Look at the reality of the situation though - more people ride and race road bikes than mountain bikes
this just isn't true in the UK

or this

agreed



not all of their money, no.. but enough for them not to have to pay their own way to compete rather than sending no hopers all over the world for free, yeah. That's obviously just me tho, eh?
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I'd be very surprised if more people raced DH in the UK than XC or road. I know you have a very strong DH scene, but I think you underestimate the real size of the road riding and racing population, not to mention their established spectator base. I admit it's entirely possible I could be wrong there, but unless road bikes are pretty uncommon there (which would seem to contradict the large volumes of them that I saw when I was in England in September) or you guys really do turn over about a million MTBs a year, I still reckon it's more than likely that the number of road and/or XC cyclists significantly outnumbers the number of downhillers.

I understand where you're coming from as far as proportional funding goes, but unfortunately people outside the DH scene seem to care little about it, which ultimately means little media coverage and little funding.
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Tame Ape

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Just want to say, that shirt does not flatter a woman's figure in the slightest. Unless they happen to be Large Marge. (shudder)
 
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Gary said:
Socket - http://www.imba.org.uk/research_and_reports/MTB_Usage_Stats.html (old news but you get the idea)
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Wow, that's a lot of assumptions. Almost comical. And no road rider stats.

Having lived in both places, I'd say there is a higher percentage of mountain bikers in the UK in general, and therefore a higher ratio of mtbers to roadies.

But I'm not sure I'd say there are more mtbers than roadies. You see a lot of mtbers of all ages at trail centers, but then there are only 20 or so trail centers in the UK, and there are thousands of miles of roads.........
 
Gary

Gary

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you'd base your assumptions on how many trail centres we have? WTF? I honestly can't remember when I last rode a trail centre.

Where I'm from there are way more off road trails than roads and unlike in the US we have access to ride them all.

Oh.. and BTW there are over 20 trail centres in Scotland alone (Scotland makes up only around 10% of the UK population)
 
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