Originally Posted by
lynnlee
Hello,
I'm new here and am not a cyclist, but have concerns about the safety of cyclists who frequent the roads around my home and, frankly, myself (as a motorist).
I don't like having to take that chance, so I go with my other option: my fifteen minute ride home with four kids turns into an hour.
Is this a typical case of exaggeration? Most ‘large’ groups of cyclist on rural roads travel at speeds of 18 - 25 mph. They pack together for the drafting benefit.
So if it takes you an hour to get home at the low end speed of 18 mph behind the cyclists, then you would have to be traveling at 72 mph to make it home without the cyclist (15 minutes), and you drive that fast with 4 kids in the car/SUV? Not very safe for the road as described.