British Cycling or Cycling UK or doesn't it really matter?

[Fab Foodie]

I remember now. It wasn't that I couldn't remember the outcome of the discussions. No, I couldn't understand them.

And then forgot not understanding them.

Not just me then.
I fugured it waa just simpler to pay the full CUK in full ignorance and just not take part in any Audax just to be certain...

 

[swansonj]

I see from the voting form that arrived with the latest issue of Cycle today that there are four vacancies for Cycling UK trustees. There are eight nominations, four endorsed by the nominations committee and four not. So that makes it fairly easy to work out which four to vote for

 

[Drago]

My form went in the bin along with their chipwrapper.

 

[mjr]

I see from the voting form that arrived with the latest issue of Cycle today that there are four vacancies for Cycling UK trustees. There are eight nominations, four endorsed by the nominations committee and four not. So that makes it fairly easy to work out which four to vote for

In another place, we're trying to make a list of what countries require candidates to be approved by a government committee or commission or similar before being allowed to stand for election. North Korea, China and Cuba so far. Good models, eh? Does anyone know if any of them then recommend certain candidates?

ETA: at least mere mortals get a vote, which is still better than BC, where I think some leaders are very indirectly elected and others are appointed by government agencies.

 

[theclaud]

I see from the voting form that arrived with the latest issue of Cycle today that there are four vacancies for Cycling UK trustees. There are eight nominations, four endorsed by the nominations committee and four not. So that makes it fairly easy to work out which four to vote for

Useful! That aside, the statements are predictably bland. I'm very much out of touch. Got any more lowdown?

 

[swansonj]

Useful! That aside, the statements are predictably bland. I'm very much out of touch. Got any more lowdown?

My copy of the papers got recycled last week I'm afraid so I can't reread them. But I have had two things pointed out to me:
- although four of the candidates receive particular endorsement from the nominations committee, all eight are in fact selected by Cycling Uk from a larger number of applicants. We never get to see, let alone vote on, that longer list and can only assume that any of the eight would be seen as acceptable by the incumbent leadership.
- one of them, David Chillingworth, is believed to be the former primus (as in archbishop not stove) of the Scottish Episcopal Church. The SEC are about to follow in the shoes of the Episcopal Church of the USA and be disciplined by Welby and his fellow-travelling African primates for having had the temerity during Chillingworth's period in charge to edge in the direction of equal marriage and generally showing slightly less homophobic tendencies than their English counterparts.

 

[theclaud]

My copy of the papers got recycled last week I'm afraid so I can't reread them. But I have had two things pointed out to me:
- although four of the candidates receive particular endorsement from the nominations committee, all eight are in fact selected by Cycling Uk from a larger number of applicants. We never get to see, let alone vote on, that longer list and can only assume that any of the eight would be seen as acceptable by the incumbent leadership.
- one of them, David Chillingworth, is believed to be the former primus (as in archbishop not stove) of the Scottish Episcopal Church. The SEC are about to follow in the shoes of the Episcopal Church of the USA and be disciplined by Welby and his fellow-travelling African primates for having had the temerity during Chillingworth's period in charge to edge in the direction of equal marriage and generally showing slightly less homophobic tendencies than their English counterparts.

You're not making it significantly easier to give a monkey's...

 

[swansonj]

You're not making it significantly easier to give a monkey's...

I don't. Probably like you. I helped (in a modest way) fight against the charity conversion. As soon as that fight was lost, I lost all interest in the governance - my membership is no longer "membership" in any meaningful sense, it's just a commodity transaction, and I'm not going to waste any energy bewailing lost causes, however blatantly a piss take each successive act of executive capture is (and this one certainly is).

 

[BalkanExpress]

You're not making it significantly easier to give a monkey's...

I don't think @swansonj was talking about that sort of primate.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Picked up my daughter’s new bike (Christmas present) from Halford’s today and the chaps behind the counter were telling me that Halfords won’t be offering Cycling UK members a discount from some point in the new year (he didn’t know when in comes into effect). Plus the CUK membership gets you discounts on cycling gear only in their store. The British Cycling membership will still receive a discount at Halfords for the foreseeable future and on all products in store (not just cycling stuff).

 

[mjr]

Picked up my daughter’s new bike (Christmas present) from Halford’s today and the chaps behind the counter were telling me that Halfords won’t be offering Cycling UK members a discount from some point in the new year (he didn’t know when in comes into effect). Plus the CUK membership gets you discounts on cycling gear only in their store. The British Cycling membership will still receive a discount at Halfords for the foreseeable future and on all products in store (not just cycling stuff).

The British Cycling membership discount is also only on cycling products, see https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/membership/article/halfords-discounts and I seriously doubt that a random counter worker is privy to whatever discount negotiations happen between the Halfords and CUK HQs. I suspect you may have met a BC zealot who is giving BCers a wider discount and rubbishing CUK.

 

[vickster]

That's changed, it used to be on anything in store

 

[jefmcg]

That's changed, it used to be on anything in store

Yup

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/b...ship-and-halfords-10-off-not-accepted.101658/

 

[petek]

Albeit seems to have gone all 'top-down and corporate' this past couple of years or so, it's still CUK for me. Been with em since CTC days and can't be ersed switching.
Horses for courses really though.
Choose whichever suits.

 

[mjr]

That's changed, it used to be on anything in store

Changed earlier this year. Probably Half-odds had been wanting to bring it into line with the CUK one for a while.