A month or two ago a few local "non-conformist outlaw cyclists" decided to start a once a week early morning ride. The honest purpose of this ride was to do a different route than the normal, daily 5:15 a.m. group ride that focuses on 2 or 3 different routes with no route adjustments allowed, constant bickering, participants with sketchy handling skillz and a general snake pit of personalities, attitudes, and mindless emails and forum group posts about absolute crap.
The "once a week" ride slowly evolved into a "twice a week" ride. But it was all good. The route was determined by majority vote (which at times meant 2 in favor).
It was PERFECT.
The only issue is/was, that some mornings there were not enough people present to have a majority vote. So in that case, the TWO people that showed just had to hash the route making decision out. But ALL GOOD nonetheless.
The concept was perfect for what it was intended for: smaller, safer, less stress, with a touch of sanity thrown in for good measure.
Then the unthinkable happened. The Pirate group got ID'ed by the regular group. An email or two later and couple of the pirate group participants decided to join back up with the regular group.
Ahhhhh....bummer. It was good while it lasted.
So it's back in the woods for the couple of times a week MTB ride where the only thing you have to deal with is a mouthful of spiderwebs and possums and rabbits dancing at your pedals.
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