From mountains to the sea...

[Motogeezer1949_imp]

Group riding is fun if you know who your riding with. You don't know til you ride. Then you can pick who you like, let the squids ride with each other. They prefer that anyway, cause if you're not into their kind of riding, you're just holding them back
Eventually you're going to find a group, probably small, likely having a few ex-racers, who are into skills rather than stunts. Those are the guys and gals you want to ride with, and learn from. There won't be any squids. They're too bored because the really good riders make it look deceivingly easy