New rider cracks me up on a group ride.
#21
05-18-2010 | 01:33 PM
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Guy sounds like he was getting it. As long as the groups are small it's good to school people on how to group ride.
I hate gaps also. My one buddy is a great friend but he is a lagger. Drives me nuts to go on a long jaunt with him. I am always having to look in my mirrors. I taught my G/F how to ride correctly. It's so much easier to ride with people you don't have to worry about.
I hate gaps also. My one buddy is a great friend but he is a lagger. Drives me nuts to go on a long jaunt with him. I am always having to look in my mirrors. I taught my G/F how to ride correctly. It's so much easier to ride with people you don't have to worry about.
#24
05-18-2010 | 02:31 PM
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thats why you put the new guy up front or in the back so they can ride at there level of skill. Otherwise you get a newbie that does what this guy does and before its over it bits him in the **** as hes trying to keep up with the group and makes a stupid rookie mistake and ends everyones fun day.
#29
05-18-2010 | 03:45 PM
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Six of us did a ride up into Pa. this weekend and someone brought a new guy who just bought a RK last fall.
He was in the 5 spot I was 6 and he kept lagging way behind the group so I finally passed him, half an hour later at a stop he jumped back in front of me but for the rest of the day he stayed right wth the group and anytime he dropped off even a little I could see him checking his mirrors for me. I guess he hates being last.
One of those things that just cracked me up a little on the ride, I think I pissed him off. Weird but schooling a new guy kind of made me smile.
He was in the 5 spot I was 6 and he kept lagging way behind the group so I finally passed him, half an hour later at a stop he jumped back in front of me but for the rest of the day he stayed right wth the group and anytime he dropped off even a little I could see him checking his mirrors for me. I guess he hates being last.
One of those things that just cracked me up a little on the ride, I think I pissed him off. Weird but schooling a new guy kind of made me smile.
