East Bradford Cycling Club Est. 1899

Membership

The Adults section of EBCC continues to attract new members, especially parents of the kids club, but all are welcome. We run a series of 10 Time Trials in early sum

mer, two club championship events (1 is a handicap event) in April and September and a Hill Climb in October each year.

As a member of EBCC you can ride open time trial events run by other clubs (see the CTT website for details). Members also arrange rides between themselves.
Our members also race in various disciplines including cyclocross and mountain bike.

Youth development:

It started with the Kids Saturday Bike Club set up by Mike Healey, who is still one of the key members and

coaches. Now joined by several British Cycling coaches, the club offers a variety of training sessions for all disciplines form road, to MTB to track to cyclocross, turbo, rollers and beyond. Our riders range from those who want to have fun on a bike to those who want to race, some of our youth riders have represented the club nationally and even internationally as well as representing Yorkshire at Inter Regional Events.

The main sessions are at Wyke Community Sports Village in Bradford, partly on our custom built traffic free road circuit, split up for skills and road training. We also have a flat learn to ride are. Ages of our youth section range from approx two to sixteen.

In addition there are training sessions on an evening for road in winter. The Club also organises occasional Sunday club runs  for older adults and youths. These are mainly road but we also run occasional mtb rides. In Winter we offer weekly roller/turbo training online in winter. There are occasional family rides for the very young ones on traffic free routes and twice yearly youth hostel trips.

The road training has seen a huge increase in interest and we regularly train 25 plus kids in all road skills from Bikeability to race skills with similar numbers on the pitches. Often with guests from other clubs who are welcome to join in.

Details of what we offer are in the relevant pages on our site – see the header above.

Anti-Bullying Policy

Bullying is one form of personal harassment. It is the abuse of power or position to persistently criticise or humiliate and undermine an individual’s confidence. Bullying is covered in British Cycling’s policies which we follow and disciplinary action may be taken against any member or volunteer who contravenes the Equality Policy.

Code of Conduct for Coaches:

RIGHTS– Coaches must respect and champion the rights of every individual who participates in sport.

RELATIONSHIPS – Coaches must maintain a professional attitude with athletes and others based on openness, honesty, mutual trust and respect.

RESPONSIBILITIES:PERSONAL STANDARDS -Coaches must demonstrate proper personal behaviour and conduct at all times.

STANDARDS – To maximise the benefits and minimise the risk to athletes, coaches must attain a high level of competence by attaining qualifications and through commitment to ongoing training that ensures safe and correct practice.

This club adopts the British Cycling Safeguarding Policy

Code of conduct for parents/carers

 Encourage your child to learn the rules and play within them
 Discourage unfair play and arguing with officials.
 Help your child to recognise good performance, not just results.
 Never force your child to take part in sport.
 Set a good example by recognising fair play and applauding good performances of all.
 Never punish or belittle a child for losing or making mistakes.
 Publicly accept officials’ judgements.
 Support your child’ involvement and help them to enjoy their sport
 Use correct and proper language at all times.
 Encourage and guide performers to accept responsibility for their own performance and behaviour.