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[Old trials fanatic]

windlestone, on 07 December 2011 - 07:49 AM, said:

If your club isnt affilliated to the ACU you shouldn't be signing riders ACU licence renewal forms!

I know thats why i told them they would have to contact an ACU affiliated club in the area as we wont be affiliated to the ACU in 2012. I was just checking that a rider needed a ref number from an affiliated club to renew online as some had said they had done it at the dirt bike show on the ACU stand and didnt need one plus some guys thought if you did it online they could avoid getting a ref number and having to join a club. Now i know that i was correct in telling them that they would have to contact another club that IS affiliated to the ACU for 2012. Perhaps a club will just give them a number without them having to join seeing as it's christmas ?

Edited by Old trials fanatic, 07 December 2011 - 10:04 AM.

[Nigel Dabster]

Old trials fanatic, on 07 December 2011 - 10:00 AM, said:

I know thats why i told them they would have to contact an ACU affiliated club in the area as we wont be affiliated to the ACU in 2012. I was just checking that a rider needed a ref number from an affiliated club to renew online as some had said they had done it at the dirt bike show on the ACU stand and didnt need one plus some guys thought if you did it online they could avoid getting a ref number and having to join a club. Now i know that i was correct in telling them that they would have to contact another club that IS affiliated to the ACU for 2012. Perhaps a club will just give them a number without them having to join seeing as it's christmas ?

Just as an aside why no club membership costs?

[Nigel Dabster]

Old trials fanatic, on 07 December 2011 - 10:00 AM, said:

I know thats why i told them they would have to contact an ACU affiliated club in the area as we wont be affiliated to the ACU in 2012. I was just checking that a rider needed a ref number from an affiliated club to renew online as some had said they had done it at the dirt bike show on the ACU stand and didnt need one plus some guys thought if you did it online they could avoid getting a ref number and having to join a club. Now i know that i was correct in telling them that they would have to contact another club that IS affiliated to the ACU for 2012. Perhaps a club will just give them a number without them having to join seeing as it's christmas ?

Just as an aside why no club membership costs?

Yes of course the club could give out numbers foc just the same as shoplifting is possible but who does that?

[Old trials fanatic]

Nigel Dabster, on 07 December 2011 - 12:03 PM, said:

Just as an aside why no club membership costs?

Yes of course the club could give out numbers foc just the same as shoplifting is possible but who does that?

As far as i know the club has not had a membership for years. I have been riding their trials for just over 4 years and have been running the club for just over a year. I was told it went back a few years, before i started riding with them, when it was "agreed" amongst a number of local clubs that they all would not charge membership fees so that local riders didnt have to incur all those fees involved in joining loads of local clubs to ride at club trials. I can't verify this as i was not riding then. Looks like all the other clubs then changed their minds and reverted to memberships and associated fees and we did'nt. I know we as a club run all our trials under an open permit so that way we dont have to pay any ACU affiliation fees. Also as an aside and this may be just a "Classic" club thing but all the local Classic Clubs are AMCA, dont know if thats relevant to this discussion but it was part of the reason we are going AMCA next year, and you can ride at all their events as a club member of that club or as a guest. Members save £2.00 per event on average so worth the £10 on average membership fee. Next year i will be instigating a club membership as i personally think it is a good idea and helps a feeling of loyalty. Incidentally next year as an AMCA club we can allow riders to ride who dont have a competition licence, unlike with the ACU, another of the reasons for going AMCA. Again the amount of people not bothering to take out an ACU licence may be just a Classic Bikes thing but it was having a big effect on our entries with me having to turn them away. Good luck to the ACU with their online application and who knows maybe in the future we may be an ACU club again who knows? Hope that explains any confusion?

Edited by Old trials fanatic, 07 December 2011 - 09:47 PM.