About Us
The Lotus Cycling Club is a Vancouver-based road cycling club that promotes the fun and healthy sport of cycling through events such as group rides, training, bike mechanics, educational workshops, and cause-oriented fundraisers.
Wednesday Training
Each Wednesday Lotus riders will ride out of University Hill parking lot at 6:00 pm sharp. Lotus workouts will evolve from long and moderate efforts to shorter harder efforts as the season progresses. Riders will begin with endurance intervals building aerobic oxygen rich fitness and the ability to ensure longer efforts. Topics to be discussed and practice are springing, accelerating, bridging gaps and attacking for some. For others we will discuss clipping in, climbing, cornering and pacing. The Lotus Training Plan is structured such that Wednesday evenings are about training your body to become a fitter and faster cyclist!
Our Post-ride Social
Lotus is all about 'train hard play hard'! After our intense training sessions on Wednesdays we will end at Sports Illustrated Clubhouse UBC for some post ride nutrition and well earned beers and social time!
Saturday Group Rides
While the primary focus of our Wednesday night training is to improve our fitness development, our Saturday rides are all about group riding skills and etiquette. We want the focus through the season for our group riding to be on pace-lining, keeping tight, maintaining and even speed, taking turns pulling - and no hammering off the front. This sport is all about team work and why you join the club!
Our Coaches
Lotus Cycling is very proud to offer our members coaching with Brite Coaching at no additional cost to you! The role of Brite Coaching is to structure weekly training rides on Wednesday evenings and hone the bikes skills of riders from beginner to advanced. Christine and her team of stellar coaches are bringing their expertise to your Wednesday evening. Other celebrity coaches will be joining throughout the season to add new elements of training - tactical, safety or physiological. We promise to show up ready and expect the same of you!
Code of Conduct
The Lotus Cycling Club strives to promote a safe and enjoyable cycling environment for all its members. All Lotus Cycling members are to take responsibility to achieve this goal, therefore, as a member of the team you are expected to comply with our code of conduct.