Group rides - Here's a question or two

[tigertim20]

Looks like your mates would be right

I suspect he's grateful for that

You sound like you quite a similar attitude, maybe you're twins separated at birth

Sounds like you're quite the expert on having a dick in your mouth and knowing how to clean up the aftermath

Awesome? I don't believe I ever said that but you seem quite the expert on making shit up

Thats a pretty poor effort at trolling there buddy. C- for you.
You just keep wiping that chin of yours, and Ill continue happily on my way until someone with something more than 'well I think/because I said so' pops along with some kind of compelling advice.

[Flip]

Every rider on a group ride is responsible for themselves, they look after themselves and own their own ride. No one is there to look after anyone.

I ride TEC a lot and I see my role as something of a buffer on our learner and newbie rides, between a rider that is out on the open road maybe for the first time and is a bit nervous, and some idiot car driver that cant stop themselves from intruding into the safety circle of a biker ahead. I dont scare easily and am not above making it really clear to anyone following that they need to back off.

For me TEC is also a safety net for any rider that has a problem, whether a puncture or a breakdown or whatever, so that the RIC can be kept up with any problems too. Communication is the key to this. I wont look after anyone but myself out on a ride, I will however look out for other riders and assist if required. I am not above counting the bikes either to make sure we dont lose anyone along the way.

I have had to hunt down a rider that has missed a point bike, and has busily ridden off on their own, all part of the TEC job.

I am not taking responsibility for but I do look out for all the other riders on a group ride, I am by nature a good boyscout. The other day I donated the wooled army blanket from my side car to a pillion who had a busted foot after they met a car on the wrong side of the road. However as the TEC I do look after, Shepard call it what you want, any learner riders who need or ask for help. Cars tend to keep away from me, I am an old big fat old school biker on a old school dresser. I wish some one had looked after me all those years ago when I was learning to ride. When I started riding with Hog I had been riding for 30 years and I found it a great help when one of the other riders explained the "unofficial rules" of group riding.

On a normal group ride I just tag along at the back and help out if it is needed, but with learners I am usually a bit more active.

About the only bad things about being TEC is that from time to time I miss out on dinner at the meal stop andhaving have to restock my first aid and puncher repair kits.

PS, Nuts, I have had the small supply nuts, bolts and split pins I carry often raided over the years.

[pritch]

I'm wary of the really big group rides, eg the Christmas toy run. Too many idiots.

The first rule of group rides is: Arrive on time with a full tank and an empty bladder.
(And it's amazing how many can't even manage that.)

Second rule of group rides is: Ride at your own speed.

If you are really uncomfortable - leave. There is no rule says you have to stay.

The ones I enjoy most may be more in the nature of a "group lunch" rather than a group ride. Participants ride in small groups and meet up at the chosen venue. Presumably while following rule #2.

[Brayden]

Great flaming thread would read again!

[sinfull]

I bags to be lead rider !!!