OP
OP
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
I've never understood why some organisations get it and some just don't. The person or people who can influence the latter deserve medals for patience and perseverance.
British Cycling and HSBC (and diversity in cycling)
- Thread starter coffeejo
- Start date
-
- Tags
- british cycling
- Status
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
S-Express
Guest
It's not the case though. You appear to have no basis for such a claim, and I am telling you (as someone who has been a member/volunteer with BC since the early 90s) that you clearly do not appear to know what you are talking about. I'm not here to defend BC, but I will happily call out BS when I see it.
We'll agree to disagree, then. And I'll hope for better days - and, by way of a correction, I've been told that there has been a change in the website since the last time this was discussed, which was about six weeks ago.
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/shane-sutton.199478/#post-4249142
I'd be interested to see the membership figures broken down, though. Are these to hand?
Last edited:
S-Express
Guest
Google is your friend - or get in touch with Sport England, or BC directly - I'm sure they'd be glad to help.
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/k...114-How-to-get-into-road-racing---Racesmart-0 - another completely random insight
S-Express
Guest
I'm confused, what point are you trying to make?
OP
OP
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
As a white woman, that page doesn't speak to me.
S-Express
Guest
Are you serious? It's an instructional video on safe bunch-riding skills. The skills are not gender-dependent and neither is the message.
S-Express
Guest
I suspect this is a wind-up, but I'll indulge you both for now...
Let's say you were learning to drive - would you only accept instruction from someone of the same gender and ethnicity? If the answer is 'no' - (and I'm going to assume it would be), then you can have no basis for disregarding an instructional video on bunch riding skills for the same reason.
Ironically, your attitude serves to reinforce inequality, not remove it.
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
Although on the plus side, they ban mudguards!
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
You don't get it do you. It's not about disregarding the video, it's looking at the bigger picture about how to properly represent BC as an open organisation. Seeing pictures of 100's of young white males racing along is not going to attract anyone from outside that demographic.
but require helmets (and, before anybody takes offence, I have no problems with the helmet rule for racing - I'm a little saddened that you have to wear a helmet on the Ipswich club rides, but, hey, it's their club, not mine)
S-Express
Guest
I do get it - I suspect it is probably you that doesn't. There are already participants (I don't know how many, but enough to know that the inclusivity work is effective) within the go-ride and youth structure from outside the 'white' demographic nationally, and if you spent any time at grass roots level you would see that. You simply cannot take an instructional video out of context (one not even made by BC, incidentally) and extrapolate that BC is not inclusive, simply because the instructional video does not include anyone from a BAME background, it's simply absurd.
- Status
