Riding in groups

[The Teutonic Tangerine]

We are just back from Wales (see Ride Reports) but we also ride in a group every Sunday . Using the Marker system you can ride at your own pace we have a variety of bikes in the group from Ladies riding Monsters and Bonnevilles to GS Adventures and KTM Dukes. No body eveer gets left behind if you are a slower rider you never reach the front of the queue so never have to mark and can ride at a steady 60 while some of the others are batting along at the front and then being shuffled to the back to start again when they have to mark. we managed to take 13 bikes and 17 people nearly 900 miles in 4 days without anyone getting lost or riding outside their comfort zone. On the downside some of our leaders don't have their backside connected to their brains so would only stop when they ran out of fuel and as for stopping to take pictures of stunning hillside scenery well sorry apparently we don't actually see the scenery so don't bother to stop which is sometimes annoying. The answer is to do the planning and lead the ride out yourself.

[bikesnbones]

and as for stopping to take pictures of stunning hillside scenery well sorry apparently we don't actually see the scenery so don't bother to stop which is sometimes annoying. The answer is to do the planning and lead the ride out yourself.

This is the problem as I see it.
You see a nice café you'd like to sit outside, or a bit of nice scenery you'd like to take in, and you can't because the herd dictates you must keep moving.
Not for me.

[meds8964]

prefer going on my own same as when im cycling occassionally go with my brother, but like to stop when i want to eat when i want to, im also a miserable whingin unsociable moaning t--t so my wife tells me (love eh its a funny old thing)

[cornishflat]

We are just back from Wales (see Ride Reports) but we also ride in a group every Sunday . Using the Marker system you can ride at your own pace we have a variety of bikes in the group from Ladies riding Monsters and Bonnevilles to GS Adventures and KTM Dukes. No body eveer gets left behind if you are a slower rider you never reach the front of the queue so never have to mark and can ride at a steady 60 while some of the others are batting along at the front and then being shuffled to the back to start again when they have to mark. we managed to take 13 bikes and 17 people nearly 900 miles in 4 days without anyone getting lost or riding outside their comfort zone. On the downside some of our leaders don't have their backside connected to their brains so would only stop when they ran out of fuel and as for stopping to take pictures of stunning hillside scenery well sorry apparently we don't actually see the scenery so don't bother to stop which is sometimes annoying. The answer is to do the planning and lead the ride out yourself.

For me its hard to see the pleasure. Can,t eat drink or stop for the scenery when you want, must ride here there or where ever in the queue. Achieved 900 miles of what.....nobody got lost. Well whoop de do....looks more like purgatory...to me at least...

[Al]

As I said in a previous post I had never done the large group thing before and having done it in Wales its not something I would want to do every week, but I went knowing it was a big part of the w/end and knew it was ride-coffee stop-ride -lunch, chat etc and the same after lunch and that was fine, and we really enjoyed it and because of the good planning we stopped at the cafe`s you would want to stop at anyway, if I go to another Trixster bash I will more than likely do it all over again. It has nothing to do with herd menality, just a good day out at the pace I (everybody)was comfortable with, and like everything else its each to there own, if we were all the same it would be a sad world.

Al.

[bikemad99]

The good thing to come out of this,is that the most unpleasant folk won`t be attending our Boxertrix weekends.That has got to be good.

[Hayden]

just say it as it is Reg!.....

[dave the german]

I've done 3 Trixter meets in Moffat and I cannot think of 1 time when we were an inconvenience to any other road users. I tend to like to do my own thing but because of the drop off system you can ride in a group at your own pace and have a damned good social weekend. Wish I could get to more!!

Quite the opposite, it'd be so much better if the other road users would kindly stay off the roads and get out of our way

So Dave, are you coming to Wales next year?

Could do Steve, few things going on at the moment so I'll have to make a decision later in the year but would love to be there - not to ride in a group you understand, just to sample the ales

[cornishflat]

The good thing to come out of this,is that the most unpleasant folk won`t be attending our Boxertrix weekends.That has got to be good.

Tongue in cheek....or not is the question.