Leeds Community Cycling Club

Leeds Community Cycling Club (L3C) is a club for Loiners who want to ride bikes with friends and neighbours.

We ride bicycles together for:

  1. Fellowship
  2. Solidarity
  3. Health
  4. Happiness

A cycling club that's open, friendly and inclusive

We aim to be accessible and welcoming to anyone who endorses our values of fellowship and solidarity — regardless of age, social group, identity or capabilities.

So we try to avoid the 'barriers to entry' that you might find in some cycling clubs, e.g.

  • No need to be physically fit
  • No need to own a bike
  • No type of bike is banned
  • Electric bikes are welcome
  • No compulsory membership fee
  • No minimum speed on rides
  • No dress code

But we do encourage everyday clothing that's comfortable and practical to ride in — not costumes you need to change into.

Cycling for a healthy planet, healthy city and healthy minds

This website helps us support members' participation in rides, while promoting the club and its activities to others.

Through the club, we seek to demonstrate the practical benefits of everyday, ordinary, unremarkable cycling for addressing big challenges in our society, e.g.

  • Pollution
  • Congestion
  • Mental stress
  • Climate change
  • Low productivity
  • Declining life expectancy
  • Social isolation and conflict
  • Obesity and associated diseases

Everyday people, cycling everyday

But campaigning is not our club's purpose. There are other organisations for that, e.g. Leeds Cycling Campaign.

While we encourage members to support campaigns, we believe that good practice is ultimately more persuasive that a mountain of words, protest or policy.

To which end, we encourage everyone to use bikes more often, to accomplish everyday tasks, e.g.

  • Quicker to work, shops & social events
  • Arrive earlier, with more energy and focus
  • Carry a family's weekly shop
  • Get to places that are innaccessible by car

And we discourage aggressive, competitive or showy riding that irritates other road users and deters people from becoming cyclists.