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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-
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.
Plenty of testers would rather give up cycling than have anything to do with BC :-)
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 can't find any regulation stating that a club must have a register of members, I'm simply saying that it would be a reasonable precaution.
If the club rule is that every person is a member who so asserts, that leaves no room to exclude a person from membership. There might be circumstances in which lfgss.cc wishes to revoke a person's membership (bringing the club into disrepute, acting in the name of the club in a manner contrary to the aims of the club etc.), so if you're not going to maintain a whitelist, you're going to have to maintain a blacklist instead.
It seems on balance that it is better to ask everybody to complete a simple application and declaration before any problems arise than to deal with arguments after one bad event.
If everybody puts his name to something like this:
I hereby apply to join the LFGSS Cycling Club and agree to abide by the Rules and Regulations of the club. I understand that I participate in Club activities entirely at my own risk and that no liability whatever shall attach to the Club, its Officials or Members in respect of injury, loss or damage suffered by me, however caused.
You'll save everybody a potential shitload of grief.
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If membership is free, then can't the account information of LFGSS count as a list and anyone who isn't user064528474 is a member? Making a change to the profile page being submitting a membership form?
gbj_tester
Khornight2
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.