RUSA 2025 Election Results

[Dave Thompson]

RUSA is pleased to announce that John Lee Ellis and Charlie Martin have been elected to serve 3-year terms on the Board of Directors and that Chris Argo has been elected, by acclamation, as RBA Liaison for 2025. We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the other candidates who stood for election. A special thanks, also, to Vincent Muoneke, who will be stepping down at the end of the year, and to Rob Hawks, who will be stepping down as RBA Liaison after a number of highly productive years, but will be continuing as Brevet Coordinator chair, on the Membership Committee and as RBA of CA: San Francisco, our largest region. The election results are as follows:

For Regular Board Positions:

John Lee Ellis
287
Paul Kramer
215
Charlie Martin
402
Pierre Moreels
172
Number of voters
614

Many thanks to Don Hamilton for managing this election.

[ken jessett]

Are you able to provide the percentage of the members who cast a vote in this election?

Ken J.

#3759

[Iwan Barankay]

There are 3898 with a current membership. So it's about a third who voted

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[Lois Springsteen]

I think it’s more like 16%. There were 614 voters.

Lois

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[Rob Hawks]

Er, 614 out of 3800+ is a lot less than a third. It is less than a sixth of current membership.

rob

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[Iwan Barankay]

Very true. I just looked at the numbers and not what they meant and added the tally to the total.

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[ken jessett]

Of the 3898 members, how many are 'active'? By active I mean those who have ridden at least one brevet or perm in the year.

[Vincent Muoneke]

Thanks all

It was my greatest honor to serve

Vinny

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On Dec 4, 2024, at 19:29, ken jessett <kenje...@gmail.com> wrote:

Of the 3898 members, how many are 'active'? By active I mean those who have ridden at least one brevet or perm in the year.

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[Michelle Grainger]

Congratulations to Everyone!
Michelle


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[David Weigel]

Hey Ken,

To answer your question "How many .. have ridden at least one brevet or perm in the year": According to the RUSA Annual Summary at the bottom of the RUSA Results Search page, there are 2,044 riders who have logged at least one result in 2024 year-to-date (it looks like it was last updated towards the end of November). That's a little over 52% of the stated 3,898 memberships. 614 voters is 30% of the 2,044 "active" members.

Congrats to John, Charlie, and Chris, and thank you to Vincent and Rob!

Cheers,

David Weigel

RUSA #14088

[Dan Driscoll]

From what I’ve heard, Active members…. ones that ride one or more rides a year, has been around 50% of RUSA membership for many years, now. 

I’m thankful to those that have aged out of riding, or for whatever reason don’t ride, but still stay connected to RUSA with their membership. Way too often that’s not the case, riders get to an age that makes 100km difficult within the time limits, or they are not as fast or as easy as they once were, and they no longer keep their membership. 

A few years ago, I called many very well known Randos, that did not renew their membership, to ask why, the answer in every case was age related. 

DanD 

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[ken jessett]

There are many reasons why cyclist move on to other activities. Many of us have played tennis, skied, backpacked, kayaked, bouldering and we move on to other sports. Most of my former rando buddies simply stopped riding. Randonneuring is especially demanding of time. Those who can ride a 200K in 8 hours or less have less of a drain on available leisure time than those who take 10 hours or more. Randonneuring is always going to be a niche sport and the role of the RUSA board needs to be concentrated on attracting new members and recognizing that other than the few stalwarts who hang around for the ages, many will simply try randonneuring fo a while before moving on.

Ken J.