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*****, one inattentive moment, one slight mistake, and one dead, two severely injured. Not the way a group ride is supposed to go.
99% of the time I ride alone. Just a choice, good or bad it is the choice I made. (Like helmets, I choose to wear one, and I'm OK with whatever choice you make) I've done three group rides. The first two were great!! Over 2,000 bikes at the first, no one got out of line, no mishaps, no accidents. The police presence (for crowd and traffic control) probably helped. The second there were six of us, all about the same skill level, differing styles, but everyone knew how to allow space for each other and there were no close calls. The last had the potential to end like the one linked above. There were 18 riders, four were very skilled four had no business in traffic, the remaining 10 were Ok to pretty good riders. One of the very poor riders decided to ride (HD w/forward controls) with his legs resting on the pegs with his feet well forward of the pegs. A limb in the road (probably fell from a truck) blocked half of both lanes. The guy could not swerve, didn't know how. He paniced put his feet straight down (at 60 mph) and tried to just steer around the limb while pulling the front brake. (How do I know, I was right behind him). All I could do is slow way down and try to swerve without hitting the idiot who, also had his feet on the pavement passed both of us on his way to the ditch. There are a few guys from that group I'd ride with any time any where, but there are two...
Keith
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