It was the race for life thing so you didn't have to have a membership. Some people I knew at the track helped me enter and said it was ok to race my mountainbike in cruiser. I made it to the main, but i got my @$$ whooped since it was all experts on ultra-light cruisers. the suspension fork sucks in the rythym cuz whenever you try to pump the rollers the fork just rebounds back up. oh well, it was better than just sittin around and watchin!