Membership
Membership Requirements
Interested in joining the team? Read on.
- Workouts are designed to optimize fitness and to prepare racers for competition. Purpose and structure will be announced before each ride. Anyone who participates in a ride will abide by the stated training plan. To the extent feasible on a given ride, a combination of approaches will be used to maximize the workout to everyone’s potential. These may include a combination of individualized work (e.g. timed intervals), race simulations and tempo riding, including bicycle handling skills (e.g. pace line work).
- It is important for the TriCyclists to remain accessible to new riders. To that end, the club as a whole is committed to ensuring that new riders always get home as safely as possible. The ride plan, distance, and pace will be made clear at the beginning of each ride. If a rider finds himself or herself unable to complete the ride as planned, he or she will be accompanied, or at least given directions, back to the ride start.
- Club members should realize that competitive cycling is a team sport. As such, each member will support the collective training and racing goals of the club.
- Club sponsors contribute funds and services to the Tri-Cyclists as a means of supporting the sport of bicycle racing. Club members should recognize this support by wearing club jerseys/shorts at all training rides and races to the extent practicable, as well as by patronizing sponsors. As sponsorship changes from year to year, so will the uniforms. All members will be required to purchase a minimum of one jersey and one pair of shorts each year in order to renew his/her membership.
- Each club member will be required to volunteer at club-sponsored events and to race in at least one sanctioned event per year.
- All members of the Tri-Cyclists Bicycle Racing Club are expected to refrain from engaging in unsportsmanlike conduct.
- Each member should recognize his or her responsibility to attract and retain club sponsors.
- To ensure the continued success of the club, concerns should be both raised and addressed in a constructive fashion. Riders are encouraged to direct questions and suggestions on club policies and practices to Board members.
- Riders may seek out membership in other clubs that provide different levels of support. This is consistent with the developmental goals of the club, and is encouraged when it is in the best interest of individual members or the club in general.
