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Dredge time.
I want to join a club. I'm in South West London, but not the Deep South or the Far West. Kingston Wheelers are too far away. VCL look well-organised but appear to be helmet fascists. Dulwich Paragon look almost ideal but they insist on you becoming a member of both Dulwich Paragon AND British Cycling, are shouty on their website about wearing a helmet, and make you ride up Anerly Hill at the end of the Saturday morning club run.
Rollapaluza has nice kit and all but their colander is dead and their forum rides threads are like the last minute rides thread on this forum - lovely and friendly but not necessarily what I'm looking for (which is more than 3 or 4 people, and also maybe somebody to tell me what to do if I fuck something up).
Is there anybody else round my endz? I'll probably be riding fixed and am not madly keen on helmet compulsion. Rollapaluza does look like the most sensible choice under the circumstances but the apparent lack of riding is a downer.