Racing for second claim club

Hi
Just a quick question, as a newbie to road racing here. I have two clubs which I want to join, the first because they organise a lot of local time trials and I want to support this, the second because they have an active road racing team, which I am looking to race for. If I join the club with the road racing team as a second claim member would I be allowed, under BCF rules, to race for them?
Thanks!
Adam
Just a quick question, as a newbie to road racing here. I have two clubs which I want to join, the first because they organise a lot of local time trials and I want to support this, the second because they have an active road racing team, which I am looking to race for. If I join the club with the road racing team as a second claim member would I be allowed, under BCF rules, to race for them?
Thanks!
Adam
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So, it's entirely possible to race in time trials for one club and in road races for another. Not sure what would happen if you decided to ride the British TT Champs which is a joint CTT/BC event though - that might be a problem!
Ruth
No doubt no-one would check, but I am not sure of the implications if you got caught.
David
As far as BC events go you can only be one club for all road and track events (7.9.1). But you can include more than one club/team on your licence where you want to ride first claim for different clubs in different disciplines (7.9.4) - which I take to mean cyclocross, BMX, Mountain Bike etc.
it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
As far as either CTT or BC are concerned they just look at a rider and see which club they race for in their events. They don't care whether that rider does races in the other branch of the sport for a different club. How would they know anyway? The clubs might care but the governing bodies wouldn't.
Ruth
Ruth
If it becomes an issue from a club point of view i'd suggest that you join the road race club first claim and the TT club second claim. That way you are getting onboard with the 'team' ethos with the road race club - which is obviously more important - but are still clearly demonstrating to the TT club that you are an active supporter of them.... (after all - second claim members aren't second class members....)
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Don't I know about this LOL, constant problem for us, though most want to stay 2nd Claim so they can go on the club runs
Forget the concept of second claim , you can be first claim club one for RR`s ,and first claim for club two in TT`s .
In fact, you can keep going through audax, triathlons, swimming, etc.
As regards the British TT champs , you can effectively pick and choose because if you enter in your tt club name , you get free bronze membership for the day any way.
The only thing that does apply across the governing bodies is entering two events on the same day at the same time. Both organisations will jump on you.