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It seems to be a falsehood that a club must maintain an up to date register of members
For CTT open events, it's pretty handy if your club can confirm to the organiser that you are a member, since that is the only essential qulification for entry. Not many people check, but stuff like indemnity insurance is contingent on valid membership of an affiliated club, so it's usually only when things go horribly wrong that the question is asked. I wouldn't want anybody to find out after they've hit a stray pedestrian in a time trial that your fast-and-loose attitude to club membership left them personally liable.
Less importantly, there are rules and regulations covering membership in respect of team awards and team.time trials, it would be a pisser for somebody to lose out on a team prize because a lesser rider submitted a successful protest based on the club's inability to confirm that all the members of team lfgss.cc were really first claim members of the club.
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Anyone who is worried about liability and proving they are a member can certainly add themselves to the club via British Cycling, the club is LFGSS CC. This will give them a public proof of club membership and does not cost anything more than a British Cycling membership. Anyone racing as a club member is encouraged to do this (and has been since formation of the club).
Feel free to point me at the relevant rules on the CTT website or attach such documents here if you believe that this is insufficient.
If you believe that the club itself must hold a record of members, then please point me to whatever articles exist that dictate that. I know of none, but perhaps I haven't read widely enough.
Velocio
Details schmetails.
Besides, what is a club member? There is nothing in the model constitution as supplied by BC for use by CASC entities that specifies that membership is made of a spreadsheet of names and addresses, that we need a register of members, or anything. The only requirements are about membership not excluding anyone for inequality reasons, etc and that the club can deny membership in certain circumstances.
It seems to be a falsehood that a club must maintain an up to date register of members, but I can see how clubs that operate with a membership fee cannot do so without such a register.
Shopify solves all anyway though... selling the jerseys using their store means we have a list of members, and I'll add a zero priced entry to enable people to assert membership (unrelated to BC or CTT). This was my not-so-secret plan last year to use Shopify as a membership management tool as people tend to keep their details up to date when it involves payments and shipping things to them.