If cycling clubs feel like golf clubs on wheels, people will shun them | Letters
12 February 2024 06:28
Davey Campbell makes a case for investment in infrastructure and activity cycling projects, and Chris Lovibond says the grassroots scene needs nurturingI agree with most of what Jonathan Liew says (UK cycling boom was not here to stay and lack of institutional will could keep it away, 6 February). However, his article doesn’t seem to entirely separate the sport of cycling from the activity. I have been a cycle ride leader and cycle trainer since 2009 – a few years before the boom times.I was put off the racing side in the early 1980s when I found that cycling clubs were really just golf clubs on wheels. The “Rapha cafe bore” equates to 1980s golf bore. I loved riding the velodrome in Glasgow, pre-pandemic, until I rediscovered the golf club mentality of the 80s. I have never returned. Continue readingread full article
