This email made me laugh;
Dear Racer,
Congratulations! You have qualified for the 2009 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships scheduled for July 16-19, 2009 at Sol Vista Basin in Granby, CO
Information on the 2009 USA Cycling MTB National Championships
If you haven’t already renewed your 2009 USAC-MTB license, now is the time to do it! [...]

A friend passed along this link to a Youtube clip, watch?v=-JEWrpFmz98 . Skip to about a minute thirty and try to convince yourself that mountain-bike racing has not regressed. I want it all back in one package; climb till I’m cross-eyed and then descend something that makes my nuts climb the gym rope. And super D doesn’t [...]