The rules; USAC releases MTB national championship criteria

The 2006 National Off-Road Bicycle Association (NORBA) pro team membership form is now available as a download on USA Cycling's web site. To obtain a copy, click here.

Also released by USA Cycling this week was a FAQ clarifying the qualifications rules for the National Championship category competitions which are to be held at Mammoth Mountain, California (July 20-23). The FAQ clears up misconceptions riders sometimes have about how to qualify for jersey races and lays out a few category-by-category rules (such as the fact that true US-citizen pro-class riders don't need to implicitly qualify and semi-pro's cannot 'race down' for the expert-category championships).