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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.
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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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.