USA Cycling (USAC) contracts the work of administering Road, Cyclo-Cross and Track Racing to organizations around the country. They call these organizations Local Associations (LA’s), which you will see referenced on the USAC web site. In New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut) the Local Association is NEBRA. We are charged with administering the race calendar working with clubs and professional promotors, handling upgrades and downgrades of riders, assigning, training, and recruiting officials, and any other task that involves being the face of sanctioned (USAC approved) bicycle racing in New England.
We are a volunteer organization — with the exception of Diane Fortini with whom we contract to coordinate, and often perform, these tasks. New England is very lucky to have a large number of riders and a very vibrant club based racing environment. A tremendous amount of the work gets one by the local clubs in consultation with Diane.
We receive virtually all of our funding through a small percentage of racers’ annual license fees. Well over half of these funds go to paying Diane for her invaluable service. We also issue grants in support of New England Bicycle Racing and you can go to our grant page on this site to see our guidelines. We run, with the help of Colin Reuter’s Road Race Results site, a ranking system to recognize the riders who have consistently performed well in their respective category or age group. At the end of the year medals and a small cash award are issued.
We do this for the benefit of amateur racing, the development of riders who might someday be at the top of the sport, and our love of the sport (We wouldn’t want to count the collective number of bicycles owned by the individuals on the board). In addition to the above, we have volunteers who work on advancing women’s, juniors, masters, and collegiate racers. We also have programs for promotors and officials.
See you on the road and at the races.
The NEBRA Board