Clifton CC

Just read this post from Dr Dave, quite frankly it makes my blood boil, I have sat on the club committee for 10 years, and have never received so many negative comments from certain members of the committee over the last 2 especially regarding Go Ride ! Get a grip people ! - Go ride is disconnected from the club.... give me a break they all ride in the same strip and are paying members of the main club.

Stop being negative or let others take over, so all the kids that turn up twice a week to ride at clifton sessions in their jerseys are part of the club!

''Sunday club run riders do their thing, the Go-ride section is pretty disconnected from the rest of the club. I don't think many social riders on Saturdays feel much affinity with the road racers - certainly not enough to give up their time to marshal. Neither do the road racers frequent the social rides with any regularity. I haven't seen anyone from the 8:45 since I stopped doing them months ago....

This isn't a complaint - it's just how it is. Without a shared sense of belonging to the wider club and not to the individual cliques things won't change.......

Well, certainly touched a raw nerve there!

Seriously Andy there's no need to be so defensive. What the Go-Ride section do is fantastic.
If the rest of the club aren't familiar with the coaches and prominent youth riders then it's as much their issue as it is yours. All I'm saying is that the various club groupings have little in common or shared sense of belonging as evidenced by the problems getting volunteers for the Spocos and Road Racers (or by listening to older members whose Annual Dinner was replaced by a more youth -friendly informal 'do').

Apologies if your health has been impaired by your blood boiling but please don't shoot the messenger.