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Great Ideas Come from Beers and Buddies
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We trade gossip for a plan to fix Oklahoma mountain biking: rally support for OMBA, align race calendars, simplify categories, and build real youth pathways. Sponsors get thanked, Arcadia’s new features get spotlighted, and we outline a statewide board to bring order to the chaos.
• OMBA’s role, funding gap, and 50-dollar membership drive
• Palo Duro Marathon’s low turnout and event promotion lessons
• Arcadia’s dual slalom, Outer Space build, and safety signage
• NICA’s growth, parent logistics, and youth progression paths
• Mass starts pros and cons based on field size and trail width
• Category bloat, sandbagging, and mandatory upgrade ideas
• Shorter Cat 1 vs Cat 2 parity, prologues, and course design
• Unified calendar with seasons for XC, endurance, short track, and cyclocross
• Forming a statewide board to coordinate dates and standards
• Practical ways shops, teams, and racers support the trails
Join OMBA at omba.org. “It’s $50 a year—please do that.” Also: “More very, very exciting news to come very soon. As soon as I can release it, I will release it.”
Chapters
1. Sponsors, Shoutouts, And Stakes (00:00:00)
2. The Roundtable Assembles (00:03:38)
3. Palo Duro Marathon: Why Turnout Dropped (00:07:30)
4. Race Promotion That Actually Works (00:12:10)
5. NICA Arrives And Upends Calendars (00:16:20)
6. Making Youth Pathways That Last (00:22:50)
7. OMBA Membership Drive And Funding Gaps (00:27:35)
8. Building Trails, Features, And Safety At Arcadia (00:33:40)
9. Dual Slalom, Outer Space, And Real Tech (00:41:20)
10. Mass Starts: When They Work And When They Don’t (00:47:22)
11. Categories, Sandbagging, And Fair Racing (00:53:45)
12. Shorter Cat 1? Course Design And Timing (01:01:30)
13. Mandatory Upgrades And Team Incentives (01:08:20)
14. One Calendar, Real Seasons, Less Conflict (01:16:20)
15. A Statewide Board And Next Steps (01:22:40)
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