The sport originally started on bikes with inch wheels, and that configuration has morphed into what we race today. The inch bike is a more challenging bike to ride and can be less forgiving than the bigger wheels and frame of a cruiser bike.
Personally, I like to ride my inch more than my cruiser, but overall I enjoy riding both bikes. Generally speaking, Cruiser bikes and inch bikes don't compete in the same classes, but there can be the occasional exception. You will only ever see that at lower level meetings.
Oh, the confusion of it all! Go get a coffee, this could take a while just kidding In New Zealand, there are several different racing series that you can become involved with, or you can just race at the club level and have fun that way.
The topic of race classes can seem a little complicated, so I'll try to explain it simply. The "Challenge" age-group classes. The term "Challenge Class" refers to age-group classes as contested at the world championships every year. All big race meetings will contain separate races for each age group class.
You can only compete in one age-group class per size of bike that you ride example: for me, I can compete in the 30yrs-plus Inch class, and the yrs Cruiser class - but I can't race in more than one challenge class on the Inch, and one on the cruiser, I'm only allowed to compete in one for each bike. Now, most meetings you'll compete in use what they call your " UCI age " to determine what age group you'll run in.
Your UCI age is easy to figure out. Basically, your UCI age is determined by how old you are on the 31 Dec of the given year of the meeting you are racing at. Here's an example; If I compete in a meeting in the year , I race in the age group because I will be 39 on the 31st December If I race a meeting on the 23rd January , I'll race in the class as my age on the 31st December will be The Sprockets classes are classes designed specifically for riders under the age of 7yrs old.
The races in Sprockets are not scored so no-one keeps points and there's no clear winner at the end of the day. The Sprocket classes are designed to encourage kids to have fun and enjoy their racing, but it can also be very competitive - some of those little dudes can go for it!
One thing that causes confusion in the sprockets age groups is that there can be two different age classifications. One is the UCI age as explained above the other is "age on the day" how many years old the rider is on the day of the event itself.
Parents, don't let that trip you up! Check the entry forms and race meeting flyers carefully to ensure you know what age group to enter your child in. From time to time there will be competitions set up that allow for some of the standard challenge classes to combine.
These classes are not normally "officially" recognised - so there's no National Championship for them. One such example is the "30yrs-plus Super Cruiser" class. Although it is not an officially recognised National Championship class, competing in it at an NQM meeting will often count as one of your cruiser Challenge class qualifying meetings.
To put that in English, if I went to compete in the 30yrs-plus SuperCruiser series at an NQM meeting, I wouldn't have to ride in the yrs Cruiser class, as my SuperCruiser appearance would count towards my yrs qualification. It's hard enough riding one class let alone two.
These are the big boys and girls of BMX racing. Essentially these are classes where anyone who is over the age of 16 for Junior Elite or 19 for Senior Elite can compete against one another.
You don't actually need to have any specific qualifications to ride elite classes, but if you do ride them, you'll be expected to do some very big jumps. The Elite classes often ride more tricky sections of the BMX tracks that have been set up especially for them.
The elite rider's skill level is a lot higher than your average rider and many of us myself included would never even consider trying the jumps these competitors regularly compete on. The Elite 'scene' in New Zealand is small, at any given meeting there is often less than ten riders in each Elite class. This is largely due to the extraordinary skill level required to be competitive at the Elite level. If nothing else, the Elite classes can be the most spectacular races to watch, I never get used to the size of some of those jumps!
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Please have your parent or legal guardian create an account and purchase your membership. Country United States Canada. Rider's First Name. Rider's Last Name. Legal Guardian's Email Address. Legal Guardian's Phone Number. Rider's Address. Is this the first rider in the family that will have a membership? First Rider. If there are fewer than 3 riders in a single age class they must move to the next age group in the same skill level. If after moving to the next age group the class still does not make then these riders will move to the next available class above their home class, except that no Intermediate or Expert will ever move down to a Novice class.
But a Novice may move to the Intermediate or Expert class. Example: Two 6 Intermediates move up to join one 7 Intermediate this equals three riders and a legal 7 Intermediate class. One 9 Novice moves up to join two 10 Novices, this equals three riders and a legal 10 Novice class.
One 14 Novice moves up to join one 15 Intermediate and one 14 Expert, this equals three riders and a legal 15 Intermediate class. No rider may at any time be moved down in age except if the oldest class is too small, and then they follow a move down rule exactly like the move up rule above.
Example: if the 19 Expert class does not make, they move first to the 18 Expert class and start down one class at a time until the class makes, skipping Novice classes. Intermediates also skip the Novice classes.
If a rider is combined with a higher class he will receive the points from the higher class. Example: if a 12 Novice moves to a 12 Intermediate class all riders in the class will receive Intermediate points.
If a 14 Intermediate combines with a 14 Expert all riders in the class will receive Expert points. If a 14 Expert moves to a 15 Intermediate class all riders in the class will receive Expert points. In order to determine if a rider is in the correct class, they must not only look at the class their are in but the classes above and below their class. Check the riders age and skill levels as shown on the Moto sheets 6N , 6I , 7X , etc.
This is a multiple age group class and only needs three riders to make a legal class. Now look at the make up of the 7 Intermediate class. There are two 6 Novices which does not make a single age class, their first move would be to the 7 Novice class but there are no 7 Novice riders.
These riders now move to the next class above their own class. There is one 6 Intermediate on the Moto sheet but two 6 Novice riders and one 6 Intermediate rider still do not make a legal single age class. Finely there is one 7 Intermediate rider now the class is made. The class consists of two 6 Novice riders, one 6 Intermediate rider and one 7 Intermediate rider. All the riders in this class will receive Intermediate points. As soon as possible after registration closes the Registration sheets will be posted in the area designated for that purpose.
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