Originally Posted by randya
A tight group of cyclists should be treated as a single large vehicle, and if they had the right-of-way when the beginning of the group started turning, you should expect to wait for the entire group to clear the intersection before it is your turn to go.
Life must be so much more interesting when you make up your own rules of the road. I bet there's never a dull moment.
Seriously, high-speed group rides are problematic from an advocacy standpoint. We want to be treated like other vehicles, but if you behaved like this with any other vehicle they'd lock you up in a heartbeat. This sort of behavior also makes it hard to promote the notion that cyclists are legitimate transportational users of the roads.