Originally Posted by Mike S.

I'm going to spare everyone the details here and say that USA Cycling is totally FoS.

They have pages of rules which do make sense, but, nEver enforce any of them except the ones that empower the fastest riders to go even faster.

The rule they refuse to enforce which I think causes the league to continue to be puny, is the one regarding disallowance of promotional consideration for commercial entities who are not current sponsors of teams registered to race.

In other words, if I organize a team, get some sponsors to pay a s-load of $ to have their name on the team clothing and recognized in competition, make sure everyone on the team is licensed to race for that team, registering with the name of the title sponsor on their team name line;

USA Cycling will allow other a$$(es) to register as whatever team they like and wear any clothing with the name(s) of whatever business happens to have bid the highest to get their name recognized in competeition that day.

They are f-ing themslevs out of tons of licnesures and registraion fees, and, f-ing sponsors out of what they paid for.

Now, yOU may think that the sponsors do not know, understand or care about, this; but I happen to know that they do.

Corporate marketing executives in charge of sponsorships are EX TREMELY sensitive to whether they get their money's worth from advertisement and whether or not their competition is getting the same thing, for free.

If they even think there is a chance that they can get something for free, they will nEver pay for that thing.

ThAt is why there are no major sponsors of cycling in the U.S., and, why the sport of cyclling stays so poor and puny in the U.S.

There have to be a least 100 other rules, designed to give teams an advantage in cycling, which USA Cycling refuses to enforce. Thus, it stays a sport for individuals, not teams.