JAN14 meeting Notes Click TO download.
Thanks to all that attended the BCC 1st meeting a lot was learned and discussed. The main points for the forward working of the club is noted in the document, these include some big changes to the way the club operates officially while maintaining the social ride roots that BCC was set up with in mind.
The Meeting took place at 7pm at La Taverna.
if you have any troubles with the download contact us and we can email the .pdf
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)
Just a little reminder a week today, we will be meeting at La Taverna (our usual meeting spot) for a little meeting to discuss what 2014 is to bring for BCC.
If you have any suggestions to add to the meeting agenda please post them below on the website or email us We’ll discuss anything on the list to try and come up with a plan for 2014.
Please make sure you let us know if you are coming as we will have limited space booked at La Taverna.
Update on jerseys: as of Monday/Tuesday we were informed of a small delay, this was due to the jersey tops still drying from the sublimation process of printing. we hope to have them ready for Sunday’s ride if not the meeting, further updates will come via the usual channels.
facebook event here
This meeting will be held at the above date at the above time. please let us know via email ,twitter, Facebook or here (below) if you are coming
We have booked a table at La Taverna for our meeting to discuss 2014. What we want to get out of the year, full blog on this is here.
we have around 20 questions seeking feedback, notes will be taken, and a report typed up on what people want to see etc.
Time & Date: tbc will be an evening through the week.
Venue: La Taverna
(Facebook event will be created in due course)
After a little thought last night I thought we should have a meeting one evening at La Taverna just an ideas session for the year ahead. We’ve already had a few suggestions dotted around but I think a more ‘formal’ meeting outside twitter/facebook would be more appropriate.
While met up we would be able to give the jerseys out too (so date after they’re delivered hence TBC status).
Ideas such as offering “beginners rides” at around 10 miles for those new to road cycling. Nothing too challenging to help others progress eventually to the longer club rides.
Other ideas included the above shorter rides but offering cycling advice and tips etc to new riders.
If you’ve anything you’d like added to the meeting lists please add them below or email them over, and they’ll be added to the list to discuss on the night.
Also if you can’t make it we can answer questions and add ideas and after the meeting write up a conclusion and publish that.
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.
After forming BCC in the summer and now having 8 rides (9 including a MTB run) lessons have been learned, things have changed things are becoming more organized and the ‘stage 2’ of the club starts in the new year, BCC is still a free to ride club, we still however ask that riders consider coverage from British Cycling or suchlike.
The only costs so far have been a web domain name, a ‘club phone’ and soon jerseys (and cake too on the rides). We hope to keep costs minimal. Of course in the future like other clubs we may have to make a few quid here and there to help out with things but that’s to be avoided as best as possible.
We had 10 on our 1st ever ride, then have had between 5-9 on most rides, our best one being 15 (where lessons were learned about route planning etc) We are new, we are always learning, feedback was taken, feedback was listened to, and people are coming back, we have a healthy base membership, and we want to build on that, encourage new people to take up cycling, when we have more people we can offer various rides, smaller ones, faster ones, (think like a sportive with a A,B & C route but eveevryone meets in the end!) skill set training… all ideas, all possible with more people, more experience more people networking and engaging over a common passion of cycling…. possibilities are endless.
This fits nicely into some of our plans, we wish to plan all rides online using facebook (and twitter).
We want to make greater use of the events option on facebook and centre most of our activity there, we hope to have a website running soon which is solely for news, and information, the real ‘hub’ will still be our social media. We will use Garmin Connect to plan routes and give electronic means, as well as find a way to produce paper maps and route cards for those who want to print them.
The second thing is we want to use and promote locally already the fantastic management at La Taverna have offered us the use of their car park to meet, all we as a club ask is we have a few riders come in to say thanks in the way of buying a drink, it’s also worth coming back for the main food menu as the Tapas and Chicken is fantastically done.
We have also got contact with The Cycle Pad who are a local company which list all things bike int he area, we hope to work with them and already they are in a position to offer us contacts and free promotion. Early days yet but hopefully another thing that can be utilized.
For our jersey we have chose Pedalling Squares, a local company who create retro jerseys and have very kindly designed and are to produce a jersey for BCC. We hope to go back to them and possibly extend our range of jerseys for special occasions, or get other items created. Again this is only the start.
We want to hear from other local businesses…. if you are a North East Cafe, cake stop, or can offer us anything we can use, we’ll try and push people your way, bike shops, you name it. we want to have a directory of local bike friendly merchants.This is all to come in 2014 and at the moment is very much planning.
Final thought for the moment is our partners, riders and anyone connected with the club… Hashtags are the new ID online, all the big sites use them, whenever you have a Blaydon Cycling post the hash #BlaydonCycling can be used, be this a tweet, a facebook post, an Instagram or a special offer. hopefully the tag can unite anything of interest to club members.
if anyone has any suggestions, plans, ideas, thoughts please add them below, email us, or have a word on a ride, the club is being moulded by its members and I would like to think 2014 is going to be a great year for us, new members, new rides, lots of miles, a good laugh and most importantly continuing our two wheel quest for the best cake in the north.