Name: Casual Bikers Tips on Group Riding
Start: 2025-01-11T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-11T02:00:00-05:00

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**Tips for Group Riding**
**Always bring a spare inner tube.**

**Be sure you are comfortable shifting your gears prior to riding in a group.**

**Are you unsure whether you can ride with a group?**
**This could be determined by riding your bike for several hours at 10 MPH with a few breaks. Continue to do this to build leg strength and lung capacity.**

**-Be sure to arrive at the arrival time and be ready to go on the departure time.**
**-Don't show up with ear buds.**
**-Bring plenty to drink according to the outdoor temperature.**

**Basic Preparations:**
**Use a tire pressure gauge to check your tire pressure. The correct pressure is printed on the tires' sidewalls and should be inflated to the maximum pressure. Bike tires need inflating weekly. Underinflated tires make pedaling more difficult and cause a flat tire. An excellent air pump would be this one:**
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**Try to keep your head up and look ahead for hazards or signals from the other riders. When approaching hills, it's important to widen the gap between cyclists to allow for slowing down. Avoid getting out of the saddle when someone's right behind you. Your back wheel will drop back about half a bike length.**

**Stay Safe:**
**Be aware of what is in front and behind you. Keep a distance of at least 2 bike lengths or 10 feet from the bike in front of you.**
**When stopping, put your left hand up and loudly say "stopping."**
**Never pass on the right of your fellow rider. When passing a person, always announce, "passing on your left."**

**Use Signals:**
**When possible, use hand and verbal signals to communicate with members of the group and with traffic. If the leader signals a stop or a turn, all members of the group should make the same signal. This ensures that the signal gets passed back and tells other vehicles that they can expect everybody in the group to behave the same way.**

**Make Your Own Decisions:**
**Stop at all stop signs and lights on your own. What’s clear for someone else might not be clear for you. It is dangerous to blindly follow the person in front.**

**Ride Single File on Roadways:**
**Riding two or more is especially dangerous when there is traffic. It is legal to ride side by side on the shoulder of highways, however, most shoulders are not wide enough to do so safely.**

**Watch out for traffic from the rear:**
**Those in front have a more difficult time seeing traffic approaching from the rear. When appropriate, the riders in the back should inform the others by saying "car back". This warning is generally used only on narrow roads or when some cyclists ahead are riding double and are unaware.**

**Watch out at intersections:**
**When passing through an intersection, some cyclists say "clear" if there is no crisscross traffic. This is a dangerous practice and should be abandoned. It encourages the rider to follow the leader, even though each cyclist is responsible for verifying that the way is indeed clear. When riding as a group it is safest to press the pedestrian/cyclist activated button and wait for cross traffic to come to a stop before proceeding through. Also remember to look left and right before going into the intersection!**

**Purchase lights:**
**For night riding, a bright headlight is needed. Check this one out. It comes highly recommended and you can keep cycling, stay fit and do it safely. Night riding is so much fun.**
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