Quote Originally Posted by kmehrzad View Post
I've ridden with PPTC before and to answer your questions:

It's rather hard to tell the classifications because each time I've ridden with them (I'm CC), you've got B and BB riders joining the CC ride, as well. They just ride off and do their own thing. Actually everyone just kind of rode off and followed the cue sheet. However, I stayed with one guy most of the ride and then we all met back at a restaurant afterwards. Some got there early and started eating, others straggled in and sat down then ordered while the early birds were almost done, etc.
I think that's one thing that made an impression on me about PPTC ... people just took off and rode their own ride. Some may like that and others might prefer staying with a group.
Chances are you'd meet up with someone going around your pace and hang together.
This is how I see the group rides I've been on with them.
I agree with this.

But, a couple of weeks ago I did their annual picnic ride, and in that case we stayed together as a group for a long time. After the rest stop we started to drift apart, but that might have been in part because some people stayed at the rest stop longer than others. I think it was different from normal weekly rides because there was a specific ride/cue sheet for each ride category -- there were no faster-than-CC riders on the CC ride because they had their own rides to do. I'm hoping it will be the same for the spring century. Although since it's a hilly ride I expect to get dropped no matter what.