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Lots of twitter chatter last night. So far it has avoided the NECX list but there is some solidly fired up people on hold waiting for the word.
Hopefully it will be resolved, but losing the UCI aspect of the Verge series would deal a huge blow to New England's ability to develop and let local talent shine at the National and International level.
I've stopped writing my William Wallace speech for the moment...
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OK this debate doesn't need my voice and I don't promote races nor race elite so I'm an unconcerned nobody, but... The UCI pulled something similar with the TDF, Giro, etc, whose organizers gave them a big "fuck you, we're bigger than you" and succeeded. Gloucester was the biggest CX race I did this year, and it was not part of any series that I know of. So I don't see this as a "huge blow" to anyone... More like "annoying fly."
The only issue being not all of the races can survive w/o the resource sharing of the Verge series.
Gloucester did great, and NoHo probably can survive too. Sterling? Yeah it probably can stand on its own just like Providence.
Does Vermont get enough racers? Probably, their expenses are probably the lowest of all the races, but no verge and it would get pretty small even as a UCI race.
Then there's Grenier's race and NBX. NBX probably would be okay even at the end of the season, maybe mostly due to proximity to Boston relative to the Maine course.
We'll see.
Verge series is dead, but the races can and will go on as UCI races next year.
Verge might come back for 2012 or something new/different/better in its place.
There was a shit ton of torch and pitchfork gathering last night and this morning on the internet.
One thing stands - NECX ain't going NO F'N WHERE!
Seems to me you could either have a series for every non-UCI category (no change from this year) or just have the exact same thing without making them UCI races at all. You would not have to change a thing. Out of the 1000+ paid entries each weekend, how many of them are concerned with UCI points? And I don't see "big names" as the draw. I stayed to watch the elites Gloucester, Downeast, and Noho. Gloucester (the non-Verge)had a decent showing of spectators on Sunday. The other two were ghost towns by the time the men went off. So these are not spectator events, as much as some people might like them to be.
The irony of adam lamenting the possible exclusion from the UCI after he bloviated "let it burn" into a viral national mantra is hilarious.
Shah-Bow gets two comments and you get four. Where is the muthafuckin' justice?
I mean ten not two. I may have been out tonight
But Shah-Bow is in VT freezing his ass off, so we have that going for us
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