GoRide, BC and youth development.....
mamba80
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BC have implimented a policy where official BC youth development sessions (as opposed to club ones)
are only open to youths who are members of GoRide clubs - this applies to Road/mtb and track cluster sessions.
Now, Cornwall has one GoRide club based in the far west of the county and with Devon, the 4 clubs are all on the coast areas - eg Plymouth has one small club that is GoRide - YogiCC and Plymouth Corinthians, both far bigger, are not - so would they be happy to see the future of their clubs joining another club that hasnt the facilities to take additional riders?
i dont know about other parts of the country but i d imagine that in rural areas at the very least, this is going to be a common problem.
How is this going to encourage kids to take part in cycle racing? they dont state that the child has to have done any GoRide sessions and it wont stop anyone from actually racing, just the development/training of the rider.
Surely if a rider pays his/her club and/or BC membership, then unless BC are going to offer 2 types of membership levels, then all rider development should be open to all youths ?
BTW, BC - both local and nationally havnt answered any of these questions.
I sometimes think that up Manchester/London, they havnt a clue what actually is happening in other parts of the country.
are only open to youths who are members of GoRide clubs - this applies to Road/mtb and track cluster sessions.
Now, Cornwall has one GoRide club based in the far west of the county and with Devon, the 4 clubs are all on the coast areas - eg Plymouth has one small club that is GoRide - YogiCC and Plymouth Corinthians, both far bigger, are not - so would they be happy to see the future of their clubs joining another club that hasnt the facilities to take additional riders?
i dont know about other parts of the country but i d imagine that in rural areas at the very least, this is going to be a common problem.
How is this going to encourage kids to take part in cycle racing? they dont state that the child has to have done any GoRide sessions and it wont stop anyone from actually racing, just the development/training of the rider.
Surely if a rider pays his/her club and/or BC membership, then unless BC are going to offer 2 types of membership levels, then all rider development should be open to all youths ?
BTW, BC - both local and nationally havnt answered any of these questions.
I sometimes think that up Manchester/London, they havnt a clue what actually is happening in other parts of the country.
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I think the answer is two fold.
1) bc want to encourage all clubs with a youth membership to become go-ride and thus ensure that youths are being thought correctly and are protected.
2) once a youth has been to a session bc want to ensure that when they go back to their club the session fits in with their development.
Colin0 -
Agree with what Spender says. Clubs supporting youth development.
Individual riders would take lots of individual support
The BC system does rely heavily on club volunteers at all levels up to and including RSR leveljc0 -
Tricky one......
On the one hand BC should not be excluding anyone, especially members...... but on the other hand they are encouraging people to support clubs that are actively promoting and encouraging youth cycling.
In my experience it tends to be the smaller clubs that give more back to cycling than the larger clubs, so maybe this is BC's way of trying to get them on board?
My lads did youth racing before they joined our go ride club and their bike handling skills are now better since they did the training. I would recommend any parent to take their kids to go ride if they want to race. Its not expensive (fiver) and the benefits out-weigh the cost.0
