Current Projects chat and miscellany

I've forget about Twickenham, good shout.

So Gruppetto is more of an elite club then?

midweek might work, but I like having a Sunday ride rather than an afterworker (which I already do with my commute).

Elitist, as opposed to elite, I'd say...

Grupetto is neither of these things. Its got a pretty broad range of ability: from national champs, to people who just ride for fun. Pretty much everyone likes beer and cake.

People on lfgss have some pretty skewed/hilarious/uninformed opinions on the club, sadly it's all rather normal and there are no criteria for entry (other than 'not a twat') or frat-house inductions.

We're a small club started by friends. Most people in it know each other, and we would like to keep it that way - so we only take in new members a couple of times a year. This means that new members can come on rides/meet people to see if they like it before they become part of the club. More often than not people who join tend to be friends of friends, which does help keep things social but we also take 'unknown' (can't think of a better word) members too.

People register their interest in joining and they'll normally get a reply saying whether we're taking new members at that time. Its not an elitist thing at all, it's simply to stop the club ballooning like Dynamo did and just becoming a bunch of chaingangers (or t-shirt buyers like Rollaz) who don't know each other.