Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Perhaps unsustainable for the large majority of cyclists who do NOT do their serious and competent cycling on large group rides.
I 'd be willing to bet that few, if any, daily commuters, students, working cyclists, or urban cyclists cycle in large group rides to their destinations. The enlightened few are certainly entitled to advocate only for cyclists who are serious about "experienced cyclists" in "group rides" and competent with the ways of the peloton, but such advocacy is so exclusive as to be laughable.
Large group rides are not a suitable example of competent cycling. Rather, they are the example of what happens when large numbers of incompetent cyclists get together. And the example is irrelevant to our discussion, for I do not know of any reasonable normal traffic condition in which cyclists outnumber motorists fifty to one.