First charity ride question...

[thekarens]

As my mentor says, "hold your line!" :-) Predictable riding is so much safer.

[MollyJ]

I just rode my first charity ride and it took me a long time before I felt comfortable riding in a crowd like this clipped in. But I'm a slow trajectory person. I have a hybrid with regular peddles and a road bike with clips. Since it's ten miles, it probably doesn't matter but when I go further I start to really miss my road bike features, so given the distance you'll be okay. But on my ride, everyone seemed pretty good at respecting personal space and eventually you stretch out enough that it feels like a regular ride. At the start I put myself at the back of the pack and I didn't have any trouble with feeling like I was too close to people or they were too close to me.