HIGHWOOD CYCLING CLUB CODE OF CONDUCT

As a Highwood Cycling Club race team member, I promise to:

A) Practice good sportsmanship and conduct myself in a professional manner at all cycling and noncycling events where I am representing Highwood Cycling Club. “Representing the club” is defined as any time you are wearing a club jersey or at any event where you are registered as a Highwood Cycling Club team member, regardless of whether you are wearing the club jersey or not, while you are at the event venue or on the course during an event. Unacceptable behavior includes but is not limited to:

1. Physical abuse to any person while riding or at an event.
2. Use of foul language towards any person while riding or at an event.
3. Making obscene gestures directed to any persons while riding or at an event.
4. Malicious actions on the bike toward any persons.

B) Wear club sponsors‘ and teams‘s clothing proudly. As valuable advertising “vehicles” for their sponsors, Highwood Cycling Club members are expected to wear the current, complete team uniform (including jersey and shorts) whenever possible in training, and without exception in all races.

C) Obey all traffic regulations as enforced by all relevant local authorities while on individual or group training rides or as instructed during sanctioned races. Highwood Cycling Club athletes must be conscious of their role as ambassadors to the non-cycling and recreational cycling communities. Failure to abide by traffic laws, if observed by the public, can be extremely detrimental to the team’s sponsors and may result in the revocation of all sponsorship benefits for the entire team.

All members demonstrating a manifest unwillingness to meet these Codes of Conduct will be subject to suspension or membership revocation from Highwood Cycling Club.