I ride alone most of the time. Occ DH will ride with me. He is much faster then I am going up the hills, but I am quite a bit faster going down them then he is. I have thought about joining group rides but I don't want to be tied down to meeting the group and I also don't want to get in a group that would drop me. I do have 2 women friends that I occasionally will ride with, but they are fair weather riders and they tend to like to ride in the heat of the day which does not work to well for me. Hence my name "solobiker"