I've been SAG'd twice. The first time was on Cycle Across Maryland way back in the mid 90's I was fairly new to cycling and completely unprepared for a 6 day tour. In fact, I had stopped riding altogether about 6 weeks before the ride becuase I changed jobs and didn't think I would be able to go and then my new boss found out I had signed up and he told me to go ahead and take the time off.

So there I was the first day completely out of my league with no training time to prepare me for all of the monster hills. I think the first day was something like 65 miles and I made it about 50 when the rain started to just pelt us from all directions. My dh who was my boyfriend at the time tried and tried to convince me to take a ride becuase he felt like he had to stay with me and I was going so slow. I kept refusing until we came to this one huge downhill and got completely terrified because I couldn't see from all of the rain. just then the car came driving by and I relented and flagged him down.

I did okay the rest of the week although I did sit one day out in the middle because my butt was soooooo sore. It was truly the worst vacation of my life LOL Never agree to ride a 6 day trip without any training!

The 2nd time was 2 years ago when i got lost on the Civil War Century. I was only planning to ride 25 miles and I took a wrong turn and ended up going backwards on the 62 mile course. I rode about 35 miles total when the sag wagon passed me going in the wrong direction and picked me up because I was obviously lost.

I would never start a ride anticipating using SAG but I don't have a problem using it if I need it.