USACycling is going to try and do a registration web page?
Really?
oh man.
RyanTKelly has written about it.
I'm sure others have too.
Me too.
WTF?
Bikereg is flat out f'n awesome. Yes, I have complained about the seemingly excessive fees for the really high dollar registrations like at the 24hr of Great Glen. And once I had a hiccup registering for G-ster or NoHo or something. But Steve fixed it and made it right.
I don't go ANYWHERE ELSE to check my race calendar.
If you are a promoter and you put your race on using a non-Bikereg.com I won't go, because I won't f'n know about it. Period.
Seriously.
If it isn't on Bikereg.com I really don't know about it.
My experience with SportsBaseOnline was not awesome. It sucked compared to BikeReg. Their servers sucked. Reg'n for nationals was retarded. Even this year when they changed it all up. Active.com also is not my favorite place to go, why EFTA used it or used it, I'll never know.
Keep kicking ass BikeReg (and I say it Bike Reg (soft g - like registration, for somereason i find it annoying when people say bike REG -like regulation hard G).
USACycling, just go back to what you do best, which is take money from us every year, and providing officials and rules and the rest of the important stuff. Leave the internet to people like Results Boy and Steve Roszko.
Thank you.
G
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I heart bikereg...
respect
fm
dude never fall in love with a vendor
bikereg isn't perfect but hey - it is going to be up to the promoters, no? If your customers only shop for races at BikeReg, well...
*shrug*
bikereg is where it is at currently - it will change but man - i hope not for a while... i'd like to see USACycling use their service and servers to make it work ya know? Contract it out and shit.
Loving a vendor ain't the end of the world. Sure, like any teenage romance you are bound to wind up heart broken at some point, but damn it is good while it lasts, no?
You hit the nail right on the head at the end there. And this is just another way to get more money from each and every racer. Next up is the assinine time trial the day before natz, that will no doubt have a separate entry fee and additional service fee.
It's starting.....they're gonna kill it.
Ge, you don't race much, so maybe the bikereg pay per use model works for you. I only use it about half the time I race, as day of race fees go 100% into the sport, to the promoters, where they do the most good. Yet I have still already paid $60 in bikereg service fees this year, on $788 worth of registrations. That is equal to the cost of my USAC license, just for registration! And it's not counting the races where promoters chose to absorb the fee. Some riders who use bikereg every week and race a lot are paying twice as much as I am for sure.
It is easy to say you get "nothing" from the USCF, but insurance is always a rip until somebody is sueing you. It is also easy to take for granted what goes well at the races, and criticize what does not.
We'll see where USAC goes with this, how well they do, and how much they charge, and the fee structure. IMHO promoter services is what they should be doing, and yes they need to do it better. But blind love to bikereg just because the nickel and dime payment scheme works for you is silly. That will just embolden them to charge more.
And you know, there is nothing stopping bikereg and maybe a few timing services from partnering up and starting their own sanctioning body. They are already halfway their. But why would they do that when you can take in more than the USCF just by doing a small piece of the work?
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