Originally Posted by
chasm54
^^this. If any "ride leader" tried to tell me where I needed to ride in the lane to be safe, he or she would get an extremely robust response.
You would an equally robust response from this ride leader. How you ride alone is your business. How you ride with a group is subject to the preferences of the group.
I wouldn't tell you how to ride to be safe, but I would not let you stay around if you were riding in a way that I felt was endangering a group I was leading.