Our local club is having a heated debate right now on this topic. We just sent out a "rules/guidelines for group road riding" to help educate newer riders. One of the sections made mention that its not really cool to ride triathlon bikes or ride with aerobars during the group ride. Some reasons include that they are harder to control and if your on aerobars, you can't signal directions or obstacles coming up.

Personally, I don't think tri bikes should be ridden in group rides for safety reasons. But some of the cyclists feel like we are being "elitists" by excluding them.

What do you think? Sorry if there has already been a thread on this . . .