Club run 18/09 - now a general discussion of the club run...

[Antloony]

[quote="Paul H"]Ive helped them with maintenance on their bikes

[quote="Paul H"][quote]
"Dombo"

I see your "How to win over potential new club members" course went well.

[quote="Antloony"][quote="Paul H"]Ive helped them with maintenance on their bikes

[djembi]

I am thinking about doing some cycle cross this winter

[quote="Dombo"][quote="Paul H"][quote]
"Dombo"

I see your "How to win over potential new club members" course went well.

[Marcus]

[quote="djembi"]I am thinking about doing some cycle cross this winter

[Lucyap]

[quote]CX training (whatever that is) HH Velo 2nd October.

[quote="Lucyap"][quote]CX training (whatever that is) HH Velo 2nd October.

[quote="Sylv"][quote="Lucyap"][quote="Marcus"]CX training (whatever that is) HH Velo 2nd October.

[Sylv]

[quote="Andrew G"]You're not going to be demonstrating how to bunny-hop the planks are you Sylv .

[Paul H]

I have received a PM and understand I may have upset some people with my 'Alternative Missionary Cult' comment. If I have, please accept my apologies and bare in mind most of my comments are tongue in cheek and not to be taken too seriously.

HOWEVER, I only posted this in response to criticism of the rides I enjoy i.e. we are boring, dangerous, a laughing stock, rubbish cafe etc.

If people want to do alternative rides, it is no problem with me. I suggest that on the forum you focus on the positives of your ride rather than percieved negatives of ours and you will not get any disparaging remarks from me.

While this may not be the case with the person who PM'd me, I suspect that there are political/personality issues going on here and I hope these are resolved amicably without damaging the club.

Whoever is captain next year, I hope they make sure they take the middle ground. I have been going out on ACC CRs for about 10 years now and there has always been a good turnout and while there is no harm in making tweaks, any major changes could be risky. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Perhaps prospective Captains should post their mandates so we know what they are standing for.

Cheers

[Rob Q]

[quote="Paul H"]I have received a PM and understand I may have upset some people with my 'Alternative Missionary Cult' comment. If I have, please accept my apologies and bare in mind most of my comments are tongue in cheek and not to be taken too seriously.

HOWEVER, I only posted this in response to criticism of the rides I enjoy i.e. we are boring, dangerous, a laughing stock, rubbish cafe etc.

If people want to do alternative rides, it is no problem with me. I suggest that on the forum you focus on the positives of your ride rather than percieved negatives of ours and you will not get any disparaging remarks from me.

While this may not be the case with the person who PM'd me, I suspect that there are political/personality issues going on here and I hope these are resolved amicably without damaging the club.

Whoever is captain next year, I hope they make sure they take the middle ground. I have been going out on ACC CRs for about 10 years now and there has always been a good turnout and while there is no harm in making tweaks, any major changes could be risky. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Perhaps prospective Captains should post their mandates so we know what they are standing for.

Cheers

[Snoop Doug]

Good point Paul, here goes, and apols for spelling etc I'm on a train in Scotland shiggling about a bit.

In simple terms I think the club would benefit from more encouragement. So the CR as is is fine, and so are the alternatives, it's not one or the other it's what folk want to support and organise together and do. Let's just encourage people to participate in cycling, and to participate in making the ACC club runs enjoyable and optional. No mandate...he he.

I think communications matters. I would bring back the lanterne rouge (or similar) and just try to weave that together with forum and web and other web sites and local paper too. I think that would encourage more involvement in and with the club.

A little more focus on racing, or competing generally could be fun and useful too. And I think learning from other clubs could be really interesting too. Not only on the competing side, more generally as well.

I'm hesitant to go beyond that as we've not yet seen the output from the club survey.

I'm motivated to help make ACC as good, as inclusive and as encouraging as it would like to be. I have experience of this kind of thing from my world of work, I enjoy this kind of challenge, and working with people and helping them get the best from folks genuinely motivates and excites me.

I'll check in again on Friday.

Cheers - Snoop

PS - oh yeah and I would try to encourage folk to try a different venue for club dinner.

[Rob Q]

[quote="Snoop Doug"]PS - oh yeah and I would try to encourage folk to try a different venue for club dinner.

[Paul H]

I assumed the AMC were going to have an alternative club dinner anyway.

The PM'd conversation has been kept private