Cheshire Maverick CC

Photo dump from the Team Time Trial from Thursday. The annual 25 mile event, with an unfortunate last minute course change due to roadworks.
Thanks to the organisers for a great event!

All photos courtesy of - thanks

A group of Mavericks went to Oswestry for the weekend! Ride out on Saturday and ride back Sunday, all supported by club members for overnight bags and food support.
A fantastic weekend, with beautiful weather!
Lots more trips planned this year.
If you are interested in joining, contact us via DM here, our page or email from our website!

Another Intro Ride from the weekend! If you are curious, interested and or want to see what our club is about, send us a DM on Instagram or on our page.

We have restarted our Intro Rides again. These are introductory rides (short distance), where some of our Ride Leaders will welcome you, talk about what we do and lead a ride for you to see what we are all about.

Our next one is Saturday 14th Feb. If you are interested in finding out more about us, and interested in joining our club, please contact us here or via our website!

This is a great article on what we try and provide in our club. A safe and organised way of essentially what we all want to do…ride our bikes.
We welcome lots of people to our club, we host intro rides so people know who we are and basic rules to keep everyone safe! We cater for a broad range of levels.

Contact us to get involved!

The new “inclusive” cycling clubs are going to kill someone.

And I’ll be the one who gets called a gatekeeper for saying it.

I watched a group ride last week. 30 riders. Zero hand signals.

Overlapping wheels everywhere.

One guy braking mid-corner in the bunch.

It was the most “welcoming” ride I’ve ever seen.
No intimidating rules. No stuffy customs. Just “show up and ride.”

It was also a ticking time bomb.

I LOVE that cycling is becoming more accessible.

The traditional club model, with its unwritten rules and insider knowledge, has kept too many people out for too long.

But the pendulum has swung too far.

These “rules” we’re abandoning? They’re not there to exclude people.

They’re cycling’s version of Darwin.

Holding your line through corners. Signaling when you stand. Never overlapping wheels. Calling out road hazards. Knowing how to ride a crosswind in formation.

These customs weren’t invented by stuffy club elites to make newcomers feel small. They were developed over 100+ years of trial and error.

They exist because the alternative was crashing, injury, and chaos.

Every mature industry has “unwritten rules” that seem like gatekeeping but are actually compressed wisdom.

In surgery, there’s a protocol for everything.

In aviation, there’s a checklist culture.

In cycling, there are bunch riding customs.

Calling these “barriers to entry” misses the point entirely.

I rode with a new club last month that throws out all the “old school” rules.

They’re growing fast.

Everyone’s having fun.

Until someone hit a pothole and went down.

Then three more riders went down because they were overlapping wheels and couldn’t react.

The organizer said: “Crashes happen, it’s part of cycling.”

No.

Preventable crashes happen when you ignore 100 years of hard-earned knowledge.

I want to mix up the status quo

I want new clubs that challenge stuffy customs

I want fresh energy and perspectives

I want lower barriers to entry

But

I also want these clubs teaching the fundamentals that keep people safe

I want them respecting why the rules exist before breaking them

You can be inclusive AND have standards.

The most welcoming thing you can do for a new rider isn’t to eliminate all the rules—it’s to teach them why those rules exist and give them the skills to ride confidently in a group.

We don’t need to choose between tradition and inclusion.

We need to teach the newcomers what took us decades to learn.

Because the group ride is more fun when everyone knows what they’re doing.

And the rules aren’t there to exclude you, they’re there to bring you home safely.

What a day yesterday! Our Annual “Summer” Social Ride, and get together afterwards at our new weekend base of the Unicorn pub in Wilmslow.
There were rides from 40miles to 100miles to cater for all abilities! A pretty wet first half of the morning but it soon brightened up and was glorious in the afternoon!

If you are interested in joining us, we have intro rides happening throughout summer and autumn to allow you to see if we are right for you! Please just DM us or email us!