The ACA is showing a 23% increase of cyclocross riders from 07 to 08! If you attended a CX race this year then you're probably not surprised by this information but what is interesting is while CX went up 23% road participation is down by 10%. Why the drop by 10% is unclear (maybe someone would like to comment here?). According to USA Cycling they experienced a a 3.2% increase however that was combining road, track and cross all in the same bucket. I wonder if one of those disciplines showed a decrease and that might be why an aggregate number was released unlike how they gave mountain biking their own itemized increase of 1.2%
ACA Attendance highlights
- Overall 3.4% increase over all disciplines
- CX up 23%
- Road down 10%
Stay tuned to see how each race and category did in 08.
See the all of the ACA attendance data here
303Cycling would like to thank the ACA for providing them with this data.