Originally Posted by lsits
I've ridden with the local bike club for the past couple of weeks. Their web site said that non-members were welcome on their Sunday rides. I just showed up. Their were four groups but no one showed up for the slowest group. I rode with the "C's". We rode about 35 miles each time. I averaged around 14 MPH. I wasn't the fastest but I wasn't the slowest either. Everyone was real friendly. No one laughed at my hybrid bike. We re-grouped three times during the rides.
Find out if the club has a web site. (Most of them do) You can get a lot of information about ride distances and speeds. Go and try it out once. You'll either like it or you won't, but at least you'll know.
Lsits,
how is the club scene out there in Riverside ? which club did ya ride with ?
it's always good to not be the slowest guy out there :-) We even had one woman show up at our club ride, who had only been riding for about a week, literally... 35 years old, never learned to ride a bike... she kept up pretty good :-)
Jeff