Originally Posted by
topflightpro
It's really too bad USAC no longer requires every club to put on a race. While it wasn't really enforced, it seems that a lot more teams put on races when it was required. Also, few people know how difficult it is to actually put on a race, so they are not appreciative of your efforts.
In fairness, to psimet's point if every club put on a race who would go to them? It sucks there are less races, but if the demand were there they might not go away with such regularity. One of the issues in the northeast has been that there are too many conflicting events, simply compounding the problem of low turn out. Ten-fifteen years ago people would travel to bigger races. These days not so much.
Still no answer to the question, but taking the long view unless someone finds a way to jazz up juniors to get into cycling there's really no future for the sport.