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] It seems the USBA was making most of the aggressive moves. The motivation for rivalries like this was the $2 million to $4 million in revenue yearly that BMX generated at the time. Track operators had quite thin profit margins to work with, which perhaps made the back biting even worse since there was so little to go around.
The pros wanted a bigger purse that would be spread out over eight places, instead of the top four at ABA Nationals. This would ensure anyone making nationals would get a share of the winnings. The claim was that while NBL, NBA, and independent promotional race purses went up over the years, the ABA purses remained relatively stagnant. ABA races only warranted brief comments and listings of race results.
Legitimate complaints regarding such issues as high entry fees and subpar tracks that hosted nationals have been lodged to the ABA. Mennenga designed and built special tracks to run the nationals. In 1978, the National Bicycle Association had 50 tracks and 5,000 racers.
The USBA, suffering its own financial dire straits, sold it back to Hutch who in turn sold it to the ABA. Several ABA tracks left the ABA and joined Roker to participate in his series which were to be NBL sanctioned. With this siege mentality in his background it was easy for Mennenga to believe that USBA stole the valuable ABA membership records to proposition ABA racers to join the USBA. While the value of this list would be a motive to steal it, Mennenga provided no evidence. The magazine had left the ABA on the verge of bankruptcy. The rising costs of the insurance crises of the early 1980s, with its skyrocketing rates, affected every sanctioning body, but given the ABA’s greatly weakened state it, was life-threatening.
The amateur girls class champion Nikki Murray (unlike the NBL at this time, the ABA did not have a professional women’s division) and the Pro Cruiser number one Eric Rupe also received Honda Reflex motorcycles. The events were restricted to pros, eliminating the amateur and children classes, and invested heavily in television advertisements. Races were held on Friday nights and kept to two hours in length, which fit a television schedule and the attention span of an audience. The increased exposure of BMX was hoped to spark an upsurge of beginner classes at the local level. Greater revenue was obtained from entrance fees, making the ABA less dependent on participation on the local level.
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However, nearly 160 track operators did switch to the USBA, effectively splitting the world of BMX racing three ways. While BMX Action’s deliberate boycott was damaging, it was not the only reason the ABA received reduced coverage in the BMX press, including in BMX Action’s biggest competitors BMX Plus! And Super BMX. Many ABA Huffy Nel Lusso nationals coincided with important NBL nationals and considering there was an informal pro boycott of ABA nationals, other races were often scheduled on the same weekend as ABA events. The press followed, which led to a further decrease in coverage. The ABA changed the way it would decide its top pro for the 1984 season.