Great Ideas Come from Beers and Buddies

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.”