Episode 24: Are you anti-cycling club? The pros and cons of joining one + more of our cycling confessions

Send us Fan Mail Cycling clubs are great… or are they? In this episode George is joined by road.cc’s founder Tony Farrelly and bike industry stalwart Nick Rearden, who discuss the merits and pitfalls of joining a club. Some of you might know that road.cc was kind of founded as a cycling club for people who had no desire to join one in the real world (hence the .cc in our name), so it’s fitting that Tony is making the case for staying unattached. Is riding in a pack a pain? Are some clubs too intimidating? Nick makes the case for getting involved with a local club as a way to meet other like-minded folks, and perhaps find routes you otherwise wouldn’t have found by just going it alone. Meanwhile, we’re back in the confessions box revealing more of our cycling sins. Find out how John got on racing mountain bikes with single-sided road pedals, why Simon will do anything to avoid a hill and why Tony doesn’t care for torque wrenches or truing wheels…