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Yea, saw them doing that in Lisburn the other day, but on a
roundabout, in case someone had the temerity to drive through the
(huge) gaps that were presented.

The NI drivers took it in good grace, hooting and shaking their fists.
I thought I was back in Italy

P.

 

Jeez, that rules out half of a French run group.

P.

 

Is that 'Dropping off at the shops' i.e. leaving the lamest rider at
the back and losing him ?

P.

 

<boggle>

 

AKA "the ginge manouver"?

Phil

 

Yep : Comfort stop : Forearm extended, fist clenched, with short up
and down motion

Otherwise often used when travelling through Belgium or on the M25 ...

P.

 

Bunch of fucking tedious idiots. Road captain, **** me alive, how self
important can you get.

 

When we did the Police bikesafe day a while ago, there was some tedious
old fart from the local Honda owners club. He kept yapping on about
formation riding & how the road captain was so important. What a silly
born twat.

 

They all do it Andy, bunch of repressed homosexuals with an importance
complex.

I take great delight in ripping past the sad cunts at extreme speed.

 

Tell you what - looking at all this has made me re-assess these
guys...

http://www.wiltshirebikers.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1213402375/0
.

I took one look at that link a fortnight ago and thought "**** that
for a game of soldiers" - but compared to that lot up there^ it's
positively sensible.

Can't escape the feeling that my first experience of group riding, up
in Scotland a month ago, has completely ruined me, 'cos I appear to
have lucked into an unusual group.

The rules appeared to be:

1) you learn the rules by observation rather than by means of anyone
telling you;
2) the guy who organized the tour is in the lead at all times;
3) everyone else follows him in a sequence they work out for
themselves;
4) we proceed at the fastest possible safe speed;
5) there is no rule 5.

That worked fine for me; I tried running 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th in our
little group of 5, settling on 5th 'cos it was easiest for everyone.
Learned loads. They were all fast group on a trackday and/or club
racers and/or IAM observers and had been riding together for years.
*Way* faster than me, but I managed to keep up. Just.

Feck! Maybe it'll never be that simple again...

 

<g> I see that The Red Kights are firemen. If the Canadian ones are
anything like the American ones (of whom an example was Pat's first
husband) then everything gets done in military fashion.

 

That's pretty much standard rules for a ride-out, sensible and safe for
all types of rider. As much as I hate fluoro vests they have their
place for the guy up front who knows the way and the tail-end charlie.

That said, I don't like doing organised ride-outs, there's always some
**** who constantly pisses you off or sits behind you with high beam on.

 

Like I said, I think I was just spectacularly lucky up in Scotland.
Nothing for it but to try to reproduce the experience myself down
here.
God knows where I'm going to find punters slower than me, mind... ;o)

 

<clicks url>

Oh god, the marker system. They always rabbit on about that on the org.
Boooooooooriiiiiiiiiing.

 

<puts on yellow jacket with Thread Captain writen on>

Oi you. Get to the back of the thread and show a bit more respect.

<rubs writing off jacket before leaving>

 

That's how I ended up here in the first place...

Soy.

 

Sounds fucking excellent to me.
Especially Rule 2.

 

I like "If anyone sees someone making dangerous overtakes repeatedly -
we all make mistakes sometimes) point it out to the leader, who will
have a quiet word. If they carry on they will be asked to leave. "

Asked to leave what, the public highway?

 

It's the only one that counts.

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