10-28-2016, 02:24 AM
(10-28-2016, 01:36 AM)nhawk7504_imp Wrote: Awful. Group rides are often not safe. A friend on a group ride got startled by a woman with little experience, riding too fast up the right side in the breakdown lane. She swerved into the woman by mistake, who never should have been racing up the right side of the group. I read about a woman in Mass on a group ride killed the same way as the woman in this article. Two staggered lanes of riders and she was in the left side of riders in the right lane of the road. She couldn't get her Harley out of the way of the oncoming driver who came across the yellow line. People are texting. They're looking at the radio, looking in the mirror, looking in the glove box and so on. I've had people come across the divided line into my lane and pull out in front of me from the right and the left. Yes, they will come across the road and yes, they will pull out. Please take an extra second and assume they WILL do something stupid.Group rides prevent individual riders from being able to take evasive action. But they're popular. No matter why someone cuts into your lane or space, if you have some room (which is the real benefit of a motorcycle if we can exploit it) you can often save your skin.