The LGBRC mission is to provide a supportive bicycle
racing organization for all members to achieve
their personal and team cycling goals. The club
will strive to promote a quality program that includes
support, training, coaching and social activities.
To achieve our goals, the club and its members
will conduct themselves within the following framework:
1. All members living
in California must volunteer to help with
club activities. A lack of compliance
with this requirement will result in no support
such are race rewards, participation in club deals,
etc., possible prohibition of membership renewal
and possible dismissal from the club. An additional
$150 social, i.e., inactive, membership fee can
be paid if you are not willing to support your
club.
2. All members will strive to be supportive and
positive with mutual respect for one another, conduct
themselves in a professional manner and with good
sportsmanship, place the interests of the club
over individual interests and will ride their bikes
in a responsible and safe manner.
3. The club and membership will conduct itself
within the laws of the land.
4. The club will strive to avail itself of high
quality coaching for novice, intermediate and advanced
cyclists through a structured training and skills
clinics, learning from other club members and coaches
and caring about individual goals as well as group
goals.
5. The club will promote our sponsors by participating
in local, state, national and world competitions
while wearing the most recent team clothing during
the race, on the podium and by being knowledgeable
of our sponsors products and attributes. More specifically:
a. Members shall provide positive comments regarding
sponsors. If you have anything negative to say,
say it in a constructive fashion; turn it into
positive feedback. Most sponsors do want constructive
feedback on how to improve their products.
b. If you participate in any club sponsorship
program, you are obligated to not remove the decals
or deface the product that impacts the company
name in any way. In fact, some of our sponsorship
contracts specifically note this obligation.
c. Never directly contact a team sponsor. Contact
the club member sponsor representative as identified
on our website. This has been a serious complaint
from several sponsors for several years.
d. The generic club e-mail address http://groups.google.com/group/LGBRC?hl=en
is for only race reports, club rides, carpooling
organization, general cycling information
and general Q&A. It is not to promote
a product or company that may compete with
LGBRC sponsors. All important sponsorship
deals must be sent to the club President
first and s/he will forward the message to
only the active members of the club, i.e.,
non-active members do not qualify for club
deals. The club President is the only person
with the latest team mailing list.
e. You compete wearing an up
to date COMPLETE TEAM KIT (jersey and shorts) to be eligible for
full racing support.
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