Turbo Club - Meet Ups / Events

[<Tommy>]

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..

That’s what I thought Kip. What does everyone think about the domain issue? Personally I’d like to keep the CC at the end. Could we give the name as virtualrealitycycleclub.com or virtualreality.cc.com to get a domain?

 

[bridgy]

I don't want to throw a spanner in the works but Chaingang.cc was mentioned a while ago and I liked that name. I think the domain chain-gang.cc is available...

I think I even played around with possible logos when I was in full jersey design mode! If people are set on VR.CC though, just ignore me and carry on!

 

[berty bassett]

That’s what I thought Kip. What does everyone think about the domain issue? Personally I’d like to keep the CC at the end. Could we give the name as virtualrealitycycleclub.com or virtualreality.cc.com to get a domain?

i dont understand about the domain ! what is it and why do we need it ? if anyone wants to explain to me , feel free but be warned i am quite content in my ignorance

 

[Bored Man]

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..

Hi - All the Sportive’s I participated in last year were cycled under the guise of Team CycleChat..

 

[bridgy]

i dont understand about the domain ! what is it and why do we need it ? if anyone wants to explain to me , feel free but be warned i am quite content in my ignorance

Well.......no, I don't understand either!!

 

[Whorty]

i dont understand about the domain ! what is it and why do we need it ? if anyone wants to explain to me , feel free but be warned i am quite content in my ignorance

I assume it's if we ever want to set up a website .... but not sure that was on the cards (I can do a bit of HTML and CSS if we did want to go that route although I must warn you my day rate fees are not cheap )

We'd need to buy the domain, buy web hosting etc .... not expensive but not free. Like others have alluded to, need to choose the name the same time as the domain to ensure the domain you want is available.

 

[<Tommy>]

I don't want to throw a spanner in the works but Chaingang.cc was mentioned a while ago and I liked that name. I think the domain chain-gang.cc is available...

I think I even played around with possible logos when I was in full jersey design mode! If people are set on VR.CC though, just ignore me and carry on!

I don’t think anything has been set in stone yet mate. I like chaingang too. If you can find your old designs post them up. Be warned though. Berty, or rather Berty’s son, raised the bar quite high a page or so back!

 

[bridgy]

I don’t think anything has been set in stone yet mate. I like chaingang too. If you can find your old designs post them up. Be warned though. Berty, or rather Berty’s son, raised the bar quite high a page or so back!

Yes Berty's son's design powers far exceed my own! For what it's worth I just have a slight reservation as to whether we should closely/obviously copy the Cyclechat logo too directly - I know it's just a few of us having a bit of fun with a "team" jersey but could it be construed as ripping of an existing brand image? Particularly as Cyclechat have in recent times designed and sold their own jerseys to forum members etc. i don't know, might not be an issue, but Cyclechat.net is a business after all

 

[bridgy]

 

[Whorty]

Yes Berty's son's design powers far exceed my own! For what it's worth I just have a slight reservation as to whether we should closely/obviously copy the Cyclechat logo too directly - I know it's just a few of us having a bit of fun with a "team" jersey but could it be construed as ripping of an existing brand image? Particularly as Cyclechat have in recent times designed and sold their own jerseys to forum members etc. i don't know, might not be an issue, but Cyclechat.net is a business after all

That is a fair point ...what does our resident lawyer (@bobinski ) think? Would we be at risk of copyright breach or some other such thing?

 

[<Tommy>]

Yes Berty's son's design powers far exceed my own! For what it's worth I just have a slight reservation as to whether we should closely/obviously copy the Cyclechat logo too directly - I know it's just a few of us having a bit of fun with a "team" jersey but could it be construed as ripping of an existing brand image? Particularly as Cyclechat have in recent times designed and sold their own jerseys to forum members etc. i don't know, might not be an issue, but Cyclechat.net is a business after all

I have thought about this a little too. I guess we have options. One is that all we keep from their original design is the wheels which create the C’s. Or even re draw these too making them clichtly different, perhaps using a different pallet.

 

[berty bassett]

I don’t think anything has been set in stone yet mate. I like chaingang too. If you can find your old designs post them up. Be warned though. Berty, or rather Berty’s son, raised the bar quite high a page or so back!

i do like vrcc but some of the other suggestions sounded good too - son played around with that design when i asked him to as he enjoys stuff like that , i am sure if we could pick a name then he would have another go - we could all have a go
the only thing that slightly worries me is all being togged up the same ( except the socks Tommy ) then me puffing along somewhere down the field when we meet up !
i did say to him to try make it look like the logo on this site - so that is my fault -but things can be altered

 

[bobinski]

That is a fair point ...what does our resident lawyer (@bobinski ) think? Would we be at risk of copyright breach or some other such thing?

No idea. People come to me when suspected of a crime.
But we could ask this sites owner for an opinion on what we are proposing?

 

[CXRAndy]

It only needs to slightly different so not to tread on any toes, so to speak

 

[<Tommy>]

the only thing that slightly worries me is all being togged up the same ( except the socks Tommy ) then me puffing along somewhere down the field when we meet up !

This might be the wrong time to mention this... but I really think we should have matching socks!!!