Well this was an interesting day to say the least!! There has been a lot of speculation as to why the Elite Men/Elite Women did not race today, but here is the cliff notes summary: The riders were not asking for MORE money, we were only asking for what we signed up for. USABMX made a big deal out of the enhanced payouts for the 2013 USA BMX pro series and the total purses were supposed to be dependent on rider counts at each national… but the payouts did not match what we signed up for.
Yesterday in Nashville 38 Elite Men/AA signed up, and according to USABMX's regular season pro purse that should have fallen into the "36 or More Riders =
$10,000" category, but they have now said that because they had to pay a few UCI expenses that our payouts were less than $3,000... TOTAL PURSE, which wasn't even