I don’t know. I think it gets more complicated if we want to register as a club with British cycling. But I don’t see why we can’t call ourselves a cycling club. Kip will be the man in the know I reckon
I think we’re more likely to get arrested for crimes against fashion!
As far as I know, there is no need to affiliate to BC unless you want to race as a club. For entry into sportives etc.. we can just do that under the guise of a social group and use whatever name we decide to give ourselves. There is no requirement to have cc, but it is established as the go to internet name domain suffix for cycle clubs, however Vr.cc is already registered.
We can call ourselves whatever we like and enter into sportives, but we can’t race as Vr.cc unless we affiliate to BC and we cant buy the Vr.cc domain name.
PS Affiliation to BC requires setting up policies, appointing a secretary, potentially charging people to join etc..