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In my mind the most important reason for the popularity of time trialling in this country was the support it got over many decades from Cycling (the weekly magazine).
Now that the coverage has more or less gone this side of the sport is suffering, which is a great pity from the elite-isation point of view since it does allow less than brilliant riders (like me) to take part. Internet magazines like VeloUK can go some way to solving this problem, but someone has to write the reports. I think all open event organisers should try to get a race report into digital ink.
Road racing is a bit different. Organising a road race is a daunting task now, even though BC support is good. Races used to be organised by traditional clubs so that their riders could get rides in other clubs' events, but now any rider in such a club who shows any kind of promise will be tempted away into sponsored 'race teams' which generally don't see fit to promote events.
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Thanks Chris - an interesting read. Chapeau to Loz. I'm afraid i am probably part of the problem re elitisation but there are lots of people on here taking up crits, track league, CX season. Maybe this broadening can make traditional road racing and TTs appear to have dwindling importance to new amateur racers