Guest access

Welcome to London Phoenix cycling club. You have been invited to have guest access to the club to help you decide whether to join. During this time we encourage you to come along to rides, races and social events to meet, ride and race with other members. If you are not sure if you are fast enough, or too fast, then join us on rides described as “social” or at an event where you can ride at your own pace, eg the events organised by Trailbreak or Evans.

Guest access to the club is normally offered for up to 4 weeks. You can join anytime, but we prefer you to have been on a ride or race with other members first. We’ll let you know how to pay when you are ready. If you need a British Cycling licence to take part in a race, you must join the club first.

Register for the forum (the option in the top right corner) with your name (Firstname Surname) as username. The membership secretary will authorise your registration and you’ll be able to start using the forum and going on club rides as a guest.

Rules and expectations of members and guests

You must wear your helmet when you join us for social or training rides, and races and other events normally make this requirement too. When you come on a ride you are also expected to make sure that your bike is in good working order and not falling to bits and that you bring with you a basic toolkit, pump and spare tube. We are not averse to a bit of bike maintenance en route, but don’t push your luck.

Regents Park training rules

You are welcome to join us for the road training sessions that take place every Tuesday for an hour around the inner circle of Regents Park. The group meets at York Bridge or the inner circle at 6.30pm.

This is a training ride and introduction to group riding, it is NOT a race. For safety and to enable everyone to benefit from the training, all riders must keep to the following ground rules:
1. The format is for 45 minutes of group riding at a social pace followed by 15 minutes of sprints for those who want to. This will also depend on the traffic in the inner circle.
2. Those who arrive late, or are so inclined, can continue to ride after 7.30pm but the start time remains at 6.30pm as that suits the majority.
3. London Phoenix members must wear LP kit at all time as far as is practicable.
4. Experienced members must take charge, control the bunch, be prepared to enforce discipline, be prepared to abandon if too dangerous (apparently there was a wedding party recently causing lots of traffic) and to question non-LP riders.
5. Guests and invited riders must introduce themselves to someone wearing London Phoenix kit.

Page last updated: 23 September 2008