Cycling Ireland membership

cantalach

I'm joining CI as a non-affiliated, non-racing member (i.e. the membership that costs €10). Two questions relating to this:

1. On the form you have to choose the membership type. I don't need one of the three competition memberships but there is still a choice of 'standard' and 'cycling'. Anyone know the difference. I'd have thought that it would be pretty standard for a CI member to be a cyclist!

2. It says you get public liability insurance up to €7.5M. What exactly does this cover? Presumably it covers situations where you crash into a pedestrian and leave them in a wheelchair, but what about situations where you cause death or injury to another cyclist in your training group? A mate of mine has tried to clarify this point with CI before and found them unhelpful for whatever reason.

ednwireland

i think cycling membership covers you for sportives (the cycling ireland day member portion ) whilst standard just give s you the liability thats how i read it anyway ( could be wrong )

thebouldwhacker

cantalach wrote: »

Presumably it covers situations where you crash into a pedestrian and leave them in a wheelchair, but what about situations where you cause death or injury to another cyclist in your training group? .

Easy there Bruce Willis, what are you cycling? a bulldozer with mounted machine guns??

Public liability does exactly what it says on the tin, take your pick

Morgan

Cycling covers you for general cycling (i.e. not racing). Standard membership is for people like race-marshals who will be attending cycling events but not riding.

There are some FAQs on the insurance cover here:
http://www.cyclingireland.ie/html/site/cyclingireland/story.jsp?id=372&type=cyclingireland

quietobserver

cantalach wrote: »

I'd have thought that it would be pretty standard for a CI member to be a cyclist!

not always, some members are members because they are team managers and CI membership is necessary for such and for driving team cars

lyders

I rang CI this morning about membership. From what I gathered, the 'cycling' membership ( the €10 for newbies one) only covers you when generally out cycling and NOT when in sportives or racing etc. It's €55 for the race licience so paying for the one day at events this late in the year is a better option.

I have the insurance policy on my laptop, i can email it to you if you want, just PM your email address to me.

cantalach

quietobserver wrote: »

not always, some members are members because they are team managers and CI membership is necessary for such and for driving team cars

OK, I can see how they need to cover that but surely members such as these should be referred to as 'non-standard' members and those who actually cycle should be the 'standard' members. The terminology is the wrong way around. But maybe that's just me. Thanks for clarifying.

blorg

I am pretty sure you do not need a racing license to enter sportives, the standard one is enough (AFAIK.) Races are a different matter, I have a club competition license which lets me race in the club leagues but I need to buy a one-day to enter the open races.

rottenhat

Cycling membership is described by CI as being "for Leisure & commuter cyclists & gives personal accident & public liability insurance whilst cycling (includes participating in touring events)". I'm reasonably certain that sportives, audaxes etc fall under that description - if not, the Orwell would hardly have been charging people for Cycling membership at their randonnee.

cantalach

rottenhat wrote: »

Cycling membership is described by CI as being "for Leisure & commuter cyclists & gives personal accident & public liability insurance whilst cycling (includes participating in touring events)". I'm reasonably certain that sportives, audaxes etc fall under that description

Right, and they always make a point of saying at sportives (SKT, W200, RoK, etc.) that the event is not a race.