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Okay - couple of good points brought up, and I'm not good enough to do the quote thing, so here goes.
1. Membership fees - $125 for a senior membership, of which the MTBA fee is $100, club fee $25. Yes, there is insurance etc that gets covered by that but obviously the majority of the money is for MTBA.
2. Up here = SEQ, good point. Committee members made the point that he would be better off approaching the rep as that's what they are for, and it's easy to ignore a whinging letter, harder to ignore the rep. That will be the approach taken.
3. Very possible for the Club to do lots, but that's the point. We organise and run small club events, which in turn attracts people to the Club, they join, MTBA gets money. From the hard work of lots of people who run these events within the Club, membership has grown to ~200 people. That's great, and we want people to join and enjoy themselves (isn't that the point?) but I think MTBA has lost sight of the fact that clubs are the ones who generate the membership. Not a whole lot of people join because they've seen a bunch of elite riders throw themselves down a hill, most do so because we get them to participate in something organised and see the value for their money.
I'm not trying to begrudge the national series and the efforts to improve things, it needs both ends running well to be successful. But right now in club land there's a feeling that all we do is pass money off to MTBA for... what?
4. What do we want? Good question, I've put the call out and as said we'll put feedback back through the rep. Assistance in promoting events? Greater promotion and assistance for things like the Sunshine Series? More money for trailcare and developing tracks? There's not exactly a whole lot of DH tracks in SEQ. Would love to hear other suggestions.
Hope that helps.
1. Membership fees - $125 for a senior membership, of which the MTBA fee is $100, club fee $25. Yes, there is insurance etc that gets covered by that but obviously the majority of the money is for MTBA.
2. Up here = SEQ, good point. Committee members made the point that he would be better off approaching the rep as that's what they are for, and it's easy to ignore a whinging letter, harder to ignore the rep. That will be the approach taken.
3. Very possible for the Club to do lots, but that's the point. We organise and run small club events, which in turn attracts people to the Club, they join, MTBA gets money. From the hard work of lots of people who run these events within the Club, membership has grown to ~200 people. That's great, and we want people to join and enjoy themselves (isn't that the point?) but I think MTBA has lost sight of the fact that clubs are the ones who generate the membership. Not a whole lot of people join because they've seen a bunch of elite riders throw themselves down a hill, most do so because we get them to participate in something organised and see the value for their money.
I'm not trying to begrudge the national series and the efforts to improve things, it needs both ends running well to be successful. But right now in club land there's a feeling that all we do is pass money off to MTBA for... what?
4. What do we want? Good question, I've put the call out and as said we'll put feedback back through the rep. Assistance in promoting events? Greater promotion and assistance for things like the Sunshine Series? More money for trailcare and developing tracks? There's not exactly a whole lot of DH tracks in SEQ. Would love to hear other suggestions.
Hope that helps.