Teknecycling.com is home to Tekné Cycle Club, which is composed of a diverse group of riders, from Cadet to Master, who share a passion for cycling and a common perspective on what matters: camaraderie, community, generosity and audacity. Many of us race, some of us don’t. We ride together. We support each other. We give back to the community.

What is Tekné Cycle Club’s purpose?

The purpose of the Club is multifaceted. The core ‘organizing principle’ is that we are a group of people who want to have fun with cycling. Fun is defined differently for different people, but everyone is passionate about cycling. Many race, and find training really hard with others fun. Others don’t race, and find mellower rides fun. We all strive to improve ourselves, and to practice cycling together. Part of doing things together extends beyond our club, and into the community. So, we’re not about being insular, but contributing to the vibrancy of cycling in the region – because it’s an amazing sport – and sharing some of the aspects of the practice that we feel are really enriching, like some of the routes we ride.

Club Membership

The key requirement we have for membership is character. We only want to bring people into the club who are of character. Why? Because being a club member means everyone wants to spend time riding, traveling, and racing together. We have to respect and trust each other. Folks who are looking for a ‘race team’ in order to progress in their ‘career’ and then move along are not the sort of folks we are looking for. We invite in folks who we’ve come to know by doing the same sorts of riding, racing, and events we do.

New members have to be nominated by an existing member, endorsed by two other members, then approved by our board of directors.

We have a ‘no ass-holes’ policy, which this process is intended to support. When we consider a new member, we always ask ourselves whether the individual would have people in the group at their ability level to ride with, whether others would want to ride with them, and whether they’d contribute to our happenings and the cycling community.