1. Always plan
your ride two weeks in advance.
There is always someone that just has to know where you are going, two weeks in advance,
even though they will probably not show up for the ride. But then there will be some that will forget about the ride because
you posted it way too early.
2. Always ride the posted speed limit.
However, there will be several that
will swear your speedometer is wrong and that you were going too slow. Of course there will also be some that will swear you
were speeding.
3. Always plan your ride around some place to stop and eat. Remember, this
is a “ride to eat” club. If you don’t stop somewhere and eat someone will complain. If you do stop and eat
someone will complain that we stop and eat too much.
4. Always explain to the riders that don’t have CB radios that sometimes they really may not know what
is going on with the ride. There may be a good reason that the road captain doesn’t want to try and get thirteen
bikes around that slow moving tractor. There may be another hazard that the road captain knows about just ahead.
5. Make sure that you plan the ride for all day on Saturday.
Start the ride at the crack of dawn and end it at daybreak. Some will complain that the ride was too short. Others will not
show up for the ride and will complain that it was too long.
6. Have some planned stops along the route for bathroom and drinks.
Be prepared for several to complain that we stopped, just as soon as they get back from the bathroom or store with a drink
in their hand.
7. Plan your route on roads that we haven’t ridden before. However,
someone will complain that you didn’t check every single road out ahead of time to make sure it was pebble free and
dog free.
Others will complain that they would rather ride the “little dragon” on every ride.
8. Ask others for advice on a destination for a ride.
However, chances
are, it will be a place that you can’t get a lot of bikes into or the place charges an exorbitant entrance fee or you
can’t even find the place on a map or they don’t show up for the ride they suggested and complain to you that
you didn’t do that ride at a time they could go.
9. Besides posting the starting time of the ride, many want to know when we
will get back from the ride. Be sure and post exactly how long the ride will last.
10. Never make a mistake in your route, never miss a turn, never make a u-turn.
That way your ride will easily be forgotten.
11. Keep a steady pace so those in the rear of the group can complain
about the "Accordion Effect".
12. No matter what time the ride starts, someone will
always arrive as you pull out or just after you've turned the corner and are out of sight.
13. Someone always needs to stop where there is no place
to safely stop.
14. It doesn't matter where you stop in to eat until you pull in to someplace.
15. Someone else can always do a better job until you ask them to lead.
16. Someone always needs to get gas, no matter how much you remind everyone
to top off before start time.
17. Someone will say that the gas is cheaper or better just down the road.
18. Even the best laid plans will end up on a gravel road once in awhile.
19. Even though youv'e been standing around socializing for the last half hour, as
soon as you try to gather everyone for a pre-ride briefing or when you tell everyone it's kickstands up time, someone will
have to go use the restroom.
20. With the popularity of using a GPS these days, remember that's it's only as good and
the person using it and the people that programed the software. And saying my GPS has the a more accurate speed that
the bike speedometer is not a good excuse to leave the group behind.
