What we’re about
We are the Mid-Peninsula Bicycling Group.
This group is for experienced adult group-riding road-bike / gravel-bike riders, who are currently in good riding shape, typically riding 40+ miles per week. We are not a racing group.
Ride pace is typically 11-13 mph avg pace.
Guests of an existing member are welcome to attend the rides. The expectation is that if you as a guest are off-pace, your escort will accompany you, and get you back to the start safely, so everyone has fun.
To join this group, please post and maintain a real photo of yourself, and use your real name for the Meetup account, in the profile area.
We often photograph rides. If you find that any photo of you gets posted and you wish it had not been posted, please contact the person who posted it, or the group organizer, and we will delete it from the web-site for you.
Here are some group riding etiquette guidelines we suggest, to help ride flow, group harmony, and a good experience for the riders and the event hosts:
MOST IMPORTANTLY: RSVP YES into the ride that you plan to attend.
RSVP YES implies you have read and agree to the liability waiver at the bottom of each ride description, and as a representative for your guest(s).
1. Please show up on time. Before most rides, the host will pull the group together and explain the route and planned first re-group point, and briefly review safety protocol, hand-signals, "car back" etc.
2. RSVP YES or NO, but please show up healthy if you have RSVPed YES. No-shows are discouraged.
3. Visit the proposed route included in every Meetup description and respect the ride-leader and group's right to follow the proposed route.
4. Maintain personal pace and spacing - so group flow is not disrupted. If you want to go slower, please move to the back of the group. Please don't pass another rider too closely, or pass and then slow in a way that makes them slow too, when you are in a pace-line.
5. When people call "car back" for safety please, get in line at the right side of the road and maintain single-file until the car has passed.
6. Please be patient when passing a slower rider. Look behind you to make sure the road is clear, and call out "on your left" and then pass the rider on their left side. If there is a car back at the time, wait until the car has passed before you start the pass.
7. Please do not suggest or post a cross-post where people of this ride group are basically being invited to join another group's ride, without working out a deal with the organizer about that first.