LFGSS CC - LFGSS Cycle Club

Sorry, just catching up on this after being away for a while...

I want to join a club before I start racing, I am also considering setting up my own women's cycle club because the clubs I have spoken to or the women I have met are all struggling to find enough riders to support them in races because they are the token female rider in their club. How do we forsee LFGSS CC implementing rides, training, races, etc? Will there be regular ride days and events?

The club will exist, what you do with the club is entirely up to you.

The club exists to help us do things we struggle to do today, such as gain access to facilities that are traditionally only open to clubs and other sports organisations.

If you want to use the club to help create a strong ladies team, then feel free. I'm a big fan of people doing whatever they want and asking forgiveness later than asking permission first.

The only things I'd say are:
1) The strip (when finalised) will be British Cycling approved and we will be British Cycling affiliated, so you can't just go and deviate from the club strip and branding.
2) There are certain requirements of affiliation and being a CASC (Community Amateur Sports Club) that require we not bring the sport (cycling) into disrepute.

It should be really easy not to break either of those rules... thus... feel free to organise whatever you feel needs to exist, you will have the support (for whatever that is worth - encouragement mostly, a brand, a club, communication channels) of the club to do so.

And that applies to everyone.

If people want club rides, training sessions, help with specific things like Time Trial training, or a ladies team, etc... go for it. Do whatever you want.

What we're providing is the organisation itself, affiliated, insured, with strip... which means you have a vehicle available to use, and everything else is up to you to make what you want of it.