I don't know why the message just doesn't seem to come across about what most CycleChat forum rides are like! People seem to imagine that they are like sportives - they are not! If you want to ride fast, join a club and race, enter a lot of sportives, or take on some hard audax rides and try to complete them at the maximum permitted average speed of 30 kph (19 mph).
Asking a question here reminds me of [Classic NTNOCN sketch]
good job we have thick skins or is it thick heads
Oh, sorry - that really didn't come across the right way - I didn't mean to sound arsey!
I am just genuinely surprised at how many people are worried about being too slow but when I finally meet them they turn out to be 50% quicker than me!
Let me rephrase what I wrote before ...
For some reason, the message just doesn't seem to come across about what most CycleChat forum rides are like - which is friendly, slow, chatty rides with cake!
People seem to fear that forum rides might be ridden like sportives - don't worry, they are not! You won't be shown up, ridiculed or left to fend for yourself!
Anyone wanting to ride fast would really be better off joining a proper club and racing, entering sportives, or riding long, hard audax events. That's not what forum rides are about!
I suppose that one day, somebody
might consider organising a fast forum ride but I'm sure that they would then say what kind of average speed they were aiming for. It would beg the obvious question of what would happen if somebody fell off that pace or had a mechanical problem ...
DD - you are quicker than 50% of the people who do my rides, and definitely quicker than I am and the rest have to wait for me, so if you fancy joining us on any of my rides, you know where to come!
