Originally Posted by
carleton
You need to have beginner races with small numbers of other beginners, going at beginner speeds...for several weeks.
Also, the more experienced racers should fight for this. No experienced racer wants newbies in the field.
That is sort of what I was suggesting—this makes a lot of sense to me. Hopefully when they introduce the weekly series races it will be ability based. I started racing mountain bikes at very relaxed weekly series. Bit of a different ball game since there isn't a lot of pack riding, but it was invaluable in building skills required for higher level of racing.