Quote from: EvilSteve on October 22, 2008, 10:58:49 AM
If your group is too disparate in skills to run one pace, break the group up into smaller groups.

The Pace is still applied in order for everyone to ride their own speed but this must be tempered by the good of the group.

leading a group ride is not the same as going for a ride. It take a lot of skill, judgment and awareness to run a group at a safe speed.

Word!  Couldn't have said it better myself. 
Set the group and pace you want to ride and DQ folks (both too inexperienced or too aggressive) who won't abide by your rules.

Quote from: tommys67 on October 22, 2008, 07:39:25 AM
That sounds awfully familiar .

Mmm. That one was me... 

Quote from: IndustrialGrrrl on October 20, 2008, 03:26:29 AM
As for me, I had the longest 120mile ride today with Ramapo. lol.  Took our group (RJ joined us and that was a pleasant surprise) all day doing (what must have been) below the speed limit the whole ride, but it was a nice way to end my season, their route was awesome, even with a GPS and the route plugged in I doubt I could find the roads they planned out, the scenery was beautiful.  We met up for breakfast and stopped for lunch.     yummm food.  (it's a foodie group, I went with)  Luckily I made it home, the monster wasn't happy going so slow lol... naa the gauges once again are caput, this time the bike shut off on me completely (2x) while I was riding in the morning, thankfully I was only doing about 2 mph for a turnoff the 1st time, and about 10-15 mph the second time.  See I wouldn't know exactly how slow/fast I was going as the needle of the speedometer fell off months ago.    So the bike gets torn down again now......   sad to see my season end, but we did manage to get in 7 trackdays in this year, so I have all those photos to look at this winter to get me through.

My bad incident was after a bathroom break, when we were on the side of a road with very heavy traffic, (were only on this road for the equivalent of 3 blocks, and the only traffic we saw all day), no one would let us merge back in, I saw a opening, and the woman driving a car behind me I guess decided she was going to speed up and not let us in.... and we both tried to occupy the same spot at the same time.....  the car won of course, so we sort of collided.  My ankle came off the peg as she hit me, and my leg got pinned then between the car and the peg........  I'm ok though.   I think I got home in time to ice it up my ankle and take 3 motrin,  it's not hurting this morning as I write this.   In a strange turn of luck, Terry didn't make it out today, as he wasn't 100% still fighting the tail end of this dreaded cold, if he was there... I think the  would've taken everyone away......   

Hey M, I'm glad you're ok.  heard from Ramapo MC regarding a minor incident during the foliage and didn't know it was you until I read your post.  I did the DESMO ride instead of the RMC foliage ride and GC's ride.