apparently this thread has devolved into all mechanics, but i have a relevant question and don't feel like leafing through the past 100 pages of this thread.

does anyone gather for group rides a la the first page on this thread? that **** looks ****ing incredible.

i haven't been living here that long. i always see people hanging out in Dupont Circle after work, but all the bad poetry and failure to hold a steady bongo rhythm drive me away. Plus i'm detecting a high level of I-ride-an-FG-with-Pista-bars-while-listening-to-broken-social-scene-thus-I-am-hipper-than-everyone tone to this thread, but I hope my Peugeot [with it's 18 gears of pure unmitigated awesomeness and faint techno music that follows it around everywhere] and I are still welcome here.

my point is I just want to ride in a herd of people through downtown DC. does anyone still arrange this?