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Holy thread resurrection...
I'm living in Glasgow and thinking about riding with a club. As I do I live in the city centre (Merchant City 😉 ), it seems that Glasgow Green Cycling Club would be my closest club.
Can anyone vouch for GGCC? Friendly bunch? Scope to move through the ranks of their club runs? Splinter groups on WhatsApp for unofficial rides?
I went on one ride with them and never went back! Too many pile ups and arguements for my liking... The day I joined there there must have been 60 riders - must be popular.
This is all I have at the moment, made me chuckle 😀
The solidrock boys were telling me about Michael Burke from the Ivy meeting a Zwift nemesis that was always beating him. Turned out to be some pot bellied guy from Glasgow Green clearly riding at bantam weight in Zwift.
@Aldo - bugger. That's a worry. Maybe a smaller club would be better.
At the risk of getting flamed heartily - is there a Rapha Chapter in Glasgow (I am not a member of RCC, but get the sense that if you can get past the posing, there are lots of folks who want to ride lots).
Plenty of good clubs around Glasgow, so you'll find one that fits. The biggest problem you've got at the moment is that none are really functioning as normal e.g. there are usually at least 4 clubs doing winter loops of the A80 out past Stepps (a surprisingly good winter training facility) e.g. GGCC, Glasgow Nightingales, Lenzie Velo, RCCK, Glasgow Ivy and Frankie Weavers - all have quite a different atmosphere to them. South-side is similar, but just not an area I'm familiar with
Can anyone vouch for GGCC?
Glasgow Gringo Cycling Club. Brilliant at riding round local roads six abreast screaming HOLE!!! at the sight of every minor surface imperfection.
North side both the Nightingale and Ivy are great, both have nice kit. On the south side VC Glasgow South are a good bunch. Plenty of active racers, old-boy cafe stop wheelers, trackies, TTers, CXers, audaxers, the gravel-curious and everyone in between. Proper cycling clubs.
Both north and south sides of the city have all-welcome chaingangs in the summer months (in normal times) where groups range from no-slouches to really quite fast indeed.
I'm not a club joiner but I also don't rate GGCC, but Glasgow Wheelers certainly used to be the one if you're competing. Mind you, I am harking back to Millar and beyond.
Can vouch for the Northside Chainy - ouch!