Originally Posted by
BluesDawg
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.
Not if my safety is at issue, it's not. The group's "preferences" could go hang. And I would certainly ride alone in the circumstances described in the OP, because the road pictured is too narrow to safely share the lane and no ride leader is going to tell me otherwise.