Quote Originally Posted by Veronica View Post
Aerobars are scary and anyone who rides with them is just plain dangerous. Insert tongue in cheek icon.

Personally, I prefer to evaluate the person's abilities before judging them to be dangerous. I did a double century once almost entirely behind a guy riding in his aerobars. I never worried about his skills.

BTW I almost never go on big group rides because I can't stand how the groups around here disobey traffic laws. What do you mean I have to stop at the stop sign? All my rides now are solo or with friends.

Veronica
I've gotten away from big group rides myself, in part for the same reason. At least at the training rides I once frequented, there were always a lot of stupid manuevers in an effort to keep up. I finally had enough one day and never went back. I have a group of friends who have ridden together for years. They're about the only people I enjoy riding with now. Several of them use their aerobars when they're leading the group without issue. But the grou isn't huge, and generally isn't going really fast.

My issue with people using them at open-invitation group rides is that you don't necessarily have an opportunity to judge how skilled they are at using them before the ride starts. Add in a bunch of squirrely riders in general, and it's better to just have an enforce a strict policy against them IMO.