A motorcycle club is only as good as its members and it’s really important that they get on and have fun doing stuff as a club together, so joining an MCC has a couple of stages leading up to full membership:

Hang-around period

When you have decided you would like to become a member and let an officer of the club know, we’ll check that no members have any objections and start a more formal hang-around period. 

This tends to be about a month while we:

• See that you are still interested and turn up a few times
• Get a bit more of a sense of who you are and start getting to know you
• Make sure you are invited to everything we are doing
• Find you a “mentor” – a contact point with the club

And while you

• Start getting to know us better
• Show you’ve got a real interest in the club
• Get (if you haven’t already) a leather waistcoat/”cut” and get the required support patches (we will let you know what you need, where to get them and where to put them).

Prospective membership – “prospecting”

When you’ve met all of the above, your mentor will bring it to the club to propose you as a prospective member. If the club agrees, you then become a prospect.

• You get a club patch, though not the full patch, a County Durham Alliance patch and a name patch.
• You get access to almost all club communications.

The whole point of prospecting is for you to get to know, and get known by, all the current members and to try and be sure that you and the club fit together. We would expect a prospect to show that they are seriously interested in the club and put some effort into getting to know members, show they will support other members and club activities, but we don’t expect you to “earn” your membership with shitty jobs.

Prospecting is normally a period of about six months, but can be as long or as short as it needs to be to be sure someone really fits as a member.



Following a vote of current members, the prospect then gets made a full member.

Full membership gets you a full voice in the club, a vote on club matters, and your full patch. 

It’s worth saying that someone whose work commitments or health mean that they cannot meet up with us as regularly as they might like is still quite able to join us. It may well take longer to get to know each other so the hang-around and prospecting periods will probably take longer than average, but it’s not a problem.