FNRttC - could it be a club?

[GrumpyGregry]

What does it actually do for that money? If all you need is to allow people to self-register, Google Forms is free and will save to a Google Docs spreadsheet.

Google forms is a valid option.

As for Wild Apricot. Quite a bit. Take a look at http://www.ssrfur.com/ as an example, all built on their platform. Not that impressive unless you know it was built and is administered by someone with zero technical knowledge or website skills. The event stuff is quite slick too, esp for 'normal' peeps who don't do this stuff for a living. More info http://www.wildapricot.com/pricing.aspx

I've no connection with them, other than as a user.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Jersey; could we have dell's safety talk diagrams in hiviz on the back please?

 

[dellzeqq]

was my thought.....obviously the piping would be red, white and green rather than the allsorts colours. And it would say FNRttC rather than MOLTENI. But then you knew that.

I like this quote from the sales blurb #11 If you know anything about bikes then you certainly know and can respect the Campagnola brand. But did you now they make one helluva nice corkscrew?

 

[User482]

Having only been vaguely aware of the plans for the CTC to become a charity, I meandered over to the CTC forum. Alarming stuff indeed, and in my view in no way in the best interests of its members. I'd be happy to contribute to whatever it costs to arrange and insure the FNRttC, but I wouldn't be keen on any more than the loosest of ties with the CTC.

 

[dellzeqq]

Hang on there! Forget, for a second, the CTC as a national organisation and think of the CTC as the South West London District Association (and many other local groups and Right to Ride reps) who represent all that's finest in cycling. There's a lot about the organisation that is exemplary. Now and FNRttC club might affiliate to the LCC, but there would be clever reasons for doing that......(money being one)

http://www.flickr.co...nts/2541539675/ shows the jersey to best advantage.................

 

[GrumpyGregry]

was my thought.....obviously the piping would be red, white and green rather than the allsorts colours. And it would say FNRttC rather than MOLTENI. But then you knew that.

I like this quote from the sales blurb #11 If you know anything about bikes then you certainly know and can respect the Campagnola brand. But did you now they make one helluva nice corkscrew?

Needs an H and a D hand written in either side of the AR in ARCORE

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Hang on there! Forget, for a second, the CTC as a national organisation and think of the CTC as the South West London District Association (and many other local groups and Right to Ride reps) who represent all that's finest in cycling. There's a lot about the organisation that is exemplary. Now and FNRttC club might affiliate to the LCC, but there would be clever reasons for doing that......(money being one)

http://www.flickr.co...nts/2541539675/ shows the jersey to best advantage.................

There's a lot about the SW London DA that is exceptional. But no one pays their subs to the SW London DA worse luck.

 

[dellzeqq]

There's a lot about the SW London DA that is exceptional. But no one pays their subs to the SW London DA worse luck.

very true. It's one of the odd things about the CTC - the local groups only get 18p back from National Office. If the active members of the DA simply walked out and affiliated to the LCC they could save the members paying annually a good deal of money - but the Life Members would be stuffed.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

very true. It's one of the odd things about the CTC - the local groups only get 18p back from National Office. If the active members of the DA simply walked out and affiliated to the LCC they could save the members paying annually a good deal of money - but the Life Members would be stuffed.

a far better model, and one I'm told in days of yore, high wheelers, and gothic typescript the CTC used to use, you pay your subs to your branch, your branch takes their cut and passes the remainder onto the national organisation.

But very few membership orgs. work that way nowadays, more is the pity. Central control of local activities, it is all a bit 80's.

 

[PpPete]

Needs an H and a D hand written in either side of the AR in ARCORE

a non-blinding "flasher" on the back...







like this

 

[Aperitif]

Yes to Molteni style.
Yes to the safety signals fun graphics.
Yes to "Were on our way"
MacB and Topcat1, or Al and Dave, got bespoke merinos from the US. The bulk order price would be very reasonable - they would know more.

£12 p.a. 'subscription - one ride or a dozen&c... the proceeds being invested in the National Lottery as appropriate, with any benefits being used, also appropriately - even returned to the 'investors' as a 'dividend'.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yes to Molteni style.
Yes to the safety signals fun graphics.
Yes to "Were on our way"
MacB and Topcat1, or Al and Dave, got bespoke merinos from the US. The bulk order price would be very reasonable - they would know more.

£12 p.a. 'subscription - one ride or a dozen&c... the proceeds being invested in the National Lottery as appropriate, with any benefits being used, also appropriately - even returned to the 'investors' as a 'dividend'.

Tax on bulk orders (talking of bulk...) from the US could possibly do away with any savings.

Subs sound good, monies left over could go to a renewal discount or spent on beer - which I'm taking is 'investors' and 'dividend'

 

[dellzeqq]

if we went the Club route I'd simply collect the £1, spend it on talcum powder, and pressure those not already signed up to an organisation to take out affiliate membership with our chosen organisation (I suppose there's no reason why the Club could not be affiliated to both LCC and CTC). The affiliate membership fee would go straight to the LCC or the CTC, so there wouldn't be any money within the Club.

The Martlets ride is a different thing - having every rider covered by 3rd party insurance would be good. Very good.

 

[PpPete]

Or maybe, to avoid the import duty issue, licence a chinese or HK outfit to produce our design and sell & send direct to individual members? I have a few contacts....
Spin-off benefit is getting supplier to understand that there is a market other than their knock-off copies of pro-team strip.

I've only been on one ride, but hope to go on many more in the future. My £12 is ready & waiting to go...

 

[dellzeqq]

sorry - I should have said. There's a great shirt maker in Scotland that will do the job for £32 - my TRAT shirt is six years old and still looks good. And JT has put me in touch with somebody who will do the job for about £28. These are obviously printed shirts rather than the real knitted jobs, which might disappoint the fashionistas amongst us. I may be round later with a tape measure....

JT had a clever idea. Why not give all those marshalling on the Martlets ride a shirt? When they joined the ride and (generally) made their way forward, the rest of the riders would recognise them as marshals and would have somebody to ask questions of.