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Cycling in London is largely a hobby of the white affluent middle class male.
In fact cycling anywhere in Britain is.
This is more a result of the unending promotion of it as a sport, a hazardous thrill, requiring special clothes, and not a normal means of transport for normal people doing normal things.
I'd hazard a guess that the ethnic and social make-up of the LCC board has had little or no influence on that fact, and merely reflects it. Attempting to change it won't effect any change in the wider demographic because the vast majority of cyclists couldn't give a fuck about the LCC (or the CTC)