Blaydon Cycle Club is delighted to announce a logo refresh, already as a club we have developed from a bit of text, to a crest, and now to a new logo which is more fitting with the clubs colour scheme and it’s already noticeable branding.  After some consulting and a lot of hard work by our designers. We can now reveal our new logo which will be phased in on all Cycle Club literature, club kit and online presence as of now.

The Club has moved on from ‘an idea’ to a club which went from 10 members, to almost 40 within the space of a month when we ‘officially launched’ memberships. The club is constantly growing with membership requests daily and our brand growing. We have a steady ridership and both our ‘club rides’ and ‘development rides’ are gathering motion with ridership often in the high teens to twenties on the average day, with this we were offered the chance of a brand refresh which after discussion amongst those in Blaydon HQ thought in the long term would benefit the club. We’d have a cleaner, more professional image for the clubs future. I myself and I’m sure many of the original handful of members that have been around would have envisioned the club getting to this stage.

A huge thanks goes to D by Design who have designed the new Blaydon Cycling Caps which were the launchpad for our new image, our core colours stay the same, the now familiar Black White and red is here to stay! As mentioned earlier the new logo simply does that design more justice and allows for a cleaner image and a more consistent ability for us brand ourselves both on the bike and off the bike, in kit, online and on paper.

D by Design is a husband and wife team which fuses together a love of design and a love of cycling.

The brand was created out of their own passion for cycling and design, they wanted to combine the two to create handmade design-led accessories for the cycling community. David the cycling enthusiast is the maker of the caps and every cap is created by hand. Laura is the designer and creates the patterns and styles for the caps. They both use their creative knowledge to produce unique cycling cap creations out of their home studio. D by Design is a new brand and is still in the early stages of development, the brand has recently created it’s first series of cap designs based on a Neon colour set with simple patterns and bold colours.

for more information on the brand we encourage you to visit daveymiller.cc t

And now of course below is our new logo which from now will be rolled out across our club.

New Blaydon Logo

We are ordering a Jersey run for summer 2014. please note expressions of interest are open until the 12th of JULY 2014 and payment will have to be made on that day or before it. we will be placing the order that day due to our club being in the development stages unfortunately we can’t hold a reserve. so no payment unfortunately means no jersey. jerseys will cost the same as the last 2 runs £40.00.

** ORDERS NOW CLOSED **

I’ve had a few emails, tweets, etc etc about new members paying subscriptions:

I thought it would be appropriate to update all on the status of subscribing for those already not ‘paid up’ members who have expressed an interest.

First of all on behalf of the club thanks very much for your support, the growing membership list is great!

We have raised the money initially need to cover set up costs for the club, so now there is no great urgency to ‘get cash off people’ if you want to join we are waiting for our bank to set up the account (could take a few weeks yet, to be honest I am amazed the British Cycling Affiliation took a matter of days, not weeks!)

When the bank account is set up you will be to ‘buy’ your BCC membership online, this is easier for us as:

• It is automated
• The money goes direct into the club account
• Personal details are recorded on a central database for us (so we cna print out Emergency contact lists etc)
• We can send out newsletters via British Cycling
• There is less scope for error in subs paid.

When everything is set up a blog/twitter/Facebook message will be put up with how to join. once again thanks for your interest and your patience! This is all new to many of us and a huge learning curve, but slowly things are falling into place, and by the time the spring is in full swing we shall be an official, fully functioning club!

As of today Blaydon Cycle Club is an officially affiliated club with the national body British Cycling.

Our listing on the Club Finder is HERE

when it is fully set up we will take membership online as well as cash.

This is just the first step in what we hope to be a great future for the club.

if you have already paid please email us below and include:

NAME
EMAIL
EMERGENCY CONTACT NAME
EMERGENCY CONTACT NUMBERBRITISH CYCLING MEMBERSHIP NUMBER

we can then add you to the members database, please bear with us as things get set up the membership tool is a new thing to us, so may take some getting used to.

The jerseys are now here, Paul picked them up this morning, you can collect yours at a ride or at the meeting this week, please let us know when you are coming so we can bring yours along! cheers

(anyone who has confirmed attendance on facebook to the meeting shall have theirs brought along)

Good evening all. Just an update regarding our club jersey:

The design is all approved and is awaiting production which is within the next week, hopefully our jerseys will be available for pick up for our ride at the mid/end of January, we shall arrange how to do collection and the likes when we have a firm date, most likely everyone can collect at a ride.

Thanks to everyone who has paid so far. if you have not paid please get in touch with Paul ASAP to arrange payment.

Not long to go now, and a further thanks to everyone who has supported the club and bought a jersey.