National Pedal Sport Association

The National Pedal Sport Association (NPSA) was a South Eastern regional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) sanctioning body based in Florida. For the first six years of its existence if focused mostly on amateur racing since they were stressing the family experience nature of the sport, fitting their motto "Ride For Fun".

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Years of operation: 1975-1985

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Number of nationals per year: Approximately -- (including Grand National)

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However the NPSA did have several numerous Supercross even during the year to qualify the pros for the Grand National. The first Pro race was at its 1982 Grand National at Daytona Beach, Florida. This was not its only unique method of holding races. Another was the "scramble system". The NPSA like the National Bicycle League (NBL) and the now defunct National Bicycle Association (NBA) they used the moto system a.k.a the Olympic system to determine which riders graduate from the qualifying heats called Motos. In these motos points are awarded to the racers proportional to the position in which they finish. Each moto is run three times, that is the group of racers must race three times with the points awarded during each race being averaged. The racers with the four lowest points would qualify for the main. However, unlike the conventional Olympic system, in the NPSA added a unique "Scramble system" that would shuffle the racers randomly or scrambled. The racers after each moto, if there were more than eight racers in a class (eight being the maximum number of racers the starting gate can hold at any one time) would be split into to heats, say in a class of 11 15 novices the first group would be six racers the second group would be the remaining 5 racers. Again, nothing unusual. What was unique to the NPSA was after each round, instead of the racers racing the same people they raced against the first time around as was standard practice in BMX, they would very likely race some racers that were in there class but not in the original first moto but the second. The race would be run in the second go round the points added to the previous total as before. Then the riders would be scrambled again and the race would be run for the last qualifying heat. The NPSA's position was that this was fairer since all of the racers had a chance to compete against the eventual winner.