First Group Ride of the Season

[tealtreak]

Ditto on the "others bad riding"...in addition to being dangerous it reflects badly on all of us out there when cyclists ignore/break rules. I was amazed to see riders refuse to go down to single file on a tour last year when traffic backed up (the packet, website, FB ect. all stated to do so...) It doesn't do much for our PR .....

[Miranda]

Thanks for posting this. First off, glad you survived your ride! And I know exactly what are you talking about.

I have spent more time being injured, and am now chronically in pain, from crash related things. And the thought of some careless crank head crashing me is seriously worrying me.

I haven't really done alot of group riding. But each season I start out with the goal: "this is the year!...I'm going to group ride more, make more cycling friends, and find my match for an event training partner...rah rah!". Then things happen, and I don't. Now I'm starting to think: wth am I really thinking lol?!

One of the most frustrating things is those "fast guys" that need to have their arses in their *correct speed group*. They screw it up for everyone by hanging back and killing everyone else.

Of course now too, all the gym instructor friends are crawling out of the woodwork asking me to take over their Spinning classes for summer. Everyone enjoys more summer time off. But geez guys, I'm a cyclists, I can't kill myself riding the bike inside and then ride outside. The kick is it makes money tho. And part of me wonders if this is a message that I am not meant to be outside as my next crash might be a car running me over and killing me. Be nice if there was some safe happy ride gurantee lol.