southerndownhill.com - Forum

Ive set up a small riding club for Wentwood riders, Despite only starting up on friday night the forum has gone down well aswell as visitor numbers.

Our Website - www.wentwooddownhill.co.uk

Now over a year old and with 100+ members.

We now have a brand new site.
Same address but all spangly and new.
www.wentwooddownhill.co.uk

Sounds good, what is your club called and are you affiliated to B.C.?
How many members do you have and where do you ride, meet etc? ;D

Hi well sorry if your meant to but i dont have a BC licence. I posted in here as it said clubs board  ::) .
We have 17 members so far over 3 days and we ride mostly at Wentwood hence Wentwood riding association. www.wentwooddownhill.co.nr is our site.

No not at all I was just interested about your club etc. No worries. I just wondered if you were affiliated so that you had insurance cover. Your web site looks very good. Well done 17 members.  ;D

37 members now  ;D
do you have to pay to be an affiliated club? also what are the pros/cons of doing this.

Contact membership services on 0161 274 2010 who will advise you of the procedure, and will send you all the necessary information and forms to complete. For a non-commercial team there is an annual fee of £82.50. For a commercial team (any team linked to a company e.g. Fred Bloggs Cycles) the cost is £165.00 (including £57.50 for the sponsorship fee of the team name). Sponsorship is £57.50 per sponsor for the first four sponsors. Each additional sponsor is free. In return, we offer all sorts of club support programmes, including membership promotions, club official training and Go-Ride's many activity/coaching/marketing options. (http://Contact membership services on 0161 274 2010 who will advise you of the procedure, and will send you all the necessary information and forms to complete. For a non-commercial team there is an annual fee of £82.50. For a commercial team (any team linked to a company e.g. Fred Bloggs Cycles) the cost is £165.00 (including £57.50 for the sponsorship fee of the team name). Sponsorship is £57.50 per sponsor for the first four sponsors. Each additional sponsor is free. In return, we offer all sorts of club support programmes, including membership promotions, club official training and Go-Ride's many activity/coaching/marketing options.)
From BC site.

http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.asp?lID=3164&sID=1283 (http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.asp?lID=3164&sID=1283)
More info.

The advantage of being affiliated is that you have the insurance cover for your club and good support from B.C.
The first year is the most expensive, after that there are reductions in the affiliation fee for every member you have of B.C.
I also think that B.C. give you some free bronze memberships to distribute to your volunteers. Every region has a B.C. manager, if you get in touch with B.C. they will tell you who your regional manager is and they would help you set up an official club. Good luck whatever you decide to do.  ;D

Thanks guys. I may do it next year when we have established ourself. Were only officially a week old so i think it could be a bit to quick. Im Hopefully entering a few races next year which will be good for publicity if i can get a club jersey.

Take care forming a club without insurance could land you in hot water. A group of friends you may get away with it, but if someone gets hurt on a ride you have organised wouldnt want to be you in this day and age. :)

Ive told everyone and tols them again it isnt myn or the clubs responsibility. We are mostly all from the same area anyway so we could get away with a group of friends.

fair enough but you need to know that disclaimers etc count for nothing if someone did try to sue you. Have fun and think about it as soon as you can get it together.

Its been a while since I have ridden at Wentwood, bit random but, just out of interest - did you know you can see the DH track there really well on Google Earth?!!!

Ye, you can follow the fireroad through the treesso it is quite easy to see the track outline.

New website is now

www.wentwooddownhill.co.uk

We now have a brand new site.
Same address but all spangly and new.
www.wentwooddownhill.co.uk

that site is buggy 1/2 the links don't work

i haven't added proper links yet to certain pages but the only main mistake was the link on the left to blueoxygen.
Apart from that it should all be good. If that is all you mean by "buggy" then cheers and it is know about.

yeah there ar eloads of links on the front page that dont work

For full information on the track changes and also pictures of the new section click here

Archive

gateway innovations link doesn't work

For more info on the meting Click here

Clicking "Pics+Vids" in the menu bar or Click Here

Submitted by Dan

Yes they are all know about.
You can still navigate the main site without them hence why they aren't linked to at the moment.
Site needed to be updated fairly urgently thats why there wasn't enough time to do every link. They will all be fixed by tonight anyway.

Cheers