Handlebar Club

[2] The club's sole requirement for membership is "a hirsute appendage of the upper lip and with graspable extremities";[2] beards are absolutely forbidden.

[3] The club engages in activism to assuage discrimination against the handlebarred as well as competitive facial hair tourneys, and has inspired the foundation of transatlantic and Scandinavian counterparts.

[3][8] Enormous moustaches were quite popular among the flying officers of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, and in founding the club Edwards sought to perpetuate the custom.

[9] The Strand Magazine greeted the establishment as "an indication that Handlebars have outlived their time", interpreting the preponderance of "men with a distinctive type of face-wear" banding together as a sign of weakness.

Ever since the early days of the club, it has held a London meeting on the first Friday of the month, and for over ten years the venue has been The Windsor Castle Pub on Crawford Place, after its closure in September 2016 it moved to the Heron Bar & Restaurant, Norfolk Crescent, W2 2DN.