Originally Posted by The Weak Link
I gues it's like driving on the freeways. Everyone in front of you is a moron and everyone behind you is a maniac.
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On the road, it's an entirely different situation, with traffic laws, paceline etiquette, and so forth. The best place to learn these are on club rides. The only problem with club rides is that you have to be ready to ride hard or be dropped.
I hope that, in the UK at least, it is possible to find other clubs, like the one I belong to, that ride at the pace of the slowest on a Sunday social ride. everyone learns something from it.
I love to see riders moving up to faster longer rides.
No-one gets dropped in our club, and there is no need to ride harder than you need ( on a Sunday that is , on a Tuesday chain gang , now that's a different ride all together).
george