classic33
Leg End Member
You should see the views on this on non UK based sites!
CTC Membership Survey
- Thread starter Philip Benstead
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Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
You know, I just get on my bike and ride it.
I'm not sure the committee will allow that.
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
They probably want to declare war on the Velominati for having the temerity to publish a set of rules, unsanctioned by the committee.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
I just get on my bike and ride it.
I just get on my bike and ride it whilst being insured for third party risks.
I just get on my bike and ride it whilst being insured for third party risks in the company of others.
I just get on my bike and ride it whilst being insured for third party risks in the company of others on holiday.
I just get on my bike and ride it whilst being insured for third party risks in the company of others on holiday touring.
Are all some of the reasons why a club can be a good idea.
There are loads more.
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
I just get on my bike and ride it... carefully.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
as do I but...
if a child runs out and I run them over...
or I fall off and bring down another rider who sustains life changing injuries...
&c...
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
If it scares you that much, get the insurance. But you don't have to be in a club. There are many many insurance companies who are happy to deal with you as an individual.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Scares' is a strange word to use.
Yep, plenty of insurance companies will deal with me as an individual, and charge me handsomely as an individual too. Whereas a club policy brings all manner of collective discounts and benefits.
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
I don't think £12 a year for a million quid's worth of liability coverage, to pull the first quote of the stack I just saw, is excessive?
I'd actually quite like to be in a club but can't be, for reasons I've gone into before and won't go into again, but I'm not going to made to feel like I need to be in one to be a "proper" cyclist.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
No one, least of all me, thinks you need to be. Except perhaps your good self.
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
Well, that's too short, but I thought my nice little summary in post #61 neatly encapsulated the gist of what needed to be said in your original post if you wanted to try and persuade people to respond to the CTC survey.
Sadly, your amended version in post #62 clearly shows the media training you have listed in your CV was a waste of money. I don't mean that as an insult, but to put a revised wording which, when put into Word spreads 243 lines of badly worded text over 6 pages and consists of 2,506 words, means your important message gets lost.
However, as @GrumpyGregry accurately points out, it's been over for years. It was clear to me by 2010 that the traditional CTC no longer exists, as it's not a member led organisation, as it's not the Cyclists' Touring Club any more. It's a business.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
My suspicion is that in the long run that will be a good thing for the membership, and, importantly for the vast majority of cyclists who aren't members. @Philip Benstead won't know, because he's rarely involved here, but at least two of our Cyclechat regulars have been councillors in the past - and the stories they've posted have been hair-raising, as has their despair at being able to make any changes. Which means that the for a number of years the councillors as a body have not been doing their duty (legal and moral) in holding the executive to account. As a CTC member who has no attachment of any kind to the old model of member-led local groups, I'd welcome anything that made it more likely that that will happen in the future.
classic33
Leg End Member
He's not been on bikeradar for the last three and a half years. His tw*tter feed was on overload earlier this week on this, fb page, no comments allowed and a security check to pass to access it.
Says more than what he has sofar
swansonj
Guru
I did not join CTC primarily for the insurance, and not at all for a local group. I joined to support an organisation that would represent the interests of "practical" cycling: cycling as a functional mode of transport not cycling for sport; cycling for enjoyment not cycling for competition (with a small c); cycling for ordinary people not cycling for fit people. Those are the things the CTC has deliberately sidelined in pursuing its leaders' ambitions and those are the things that the space is now open for someone else to occupy.
