newcastlecycling

If you join one club you can basically race at any of the others.

Do you want to do any teams events on the road or velodrome ? IE: team sprint, pursuit, madison ?

If so pick a club that has riders that you think you could team up with.

The vets club caters mostly to vets and women for local racing and the lower grades, however this year they seemed to be a lot better represented in the club teams time trial.

HD seems to cater to A & B grade riders mostly with some support for juniors at the crit once a month, the lower grades numbers are thin at most of their events.

KOCC caters mostly to the lower grades and supports juniors quite well, they do support A & B grade riders as well but the numbers are lower than HD.

If your interested in doing masters team sprints and masters team pursuits I have been keen to get teams going at KOCC but always seem to lack enough riders that are interested and will commit to do them, I currently have a elite license as  so can do either masters or elite.

Hopefully the choice of what club to join will be reduced in the future as there is the possibility that HD and KOCC might merge and become one club that caters and supports all Newcastle cyclists.