[ben]

I always ride alone, it's just easier that way. My son is talking about getting a bike and riding with me. We'll see how that goes.

[Goose5]

Another soloist here. I have riden with two others twice. That's about it.

[avmech]

Solo, like it that way, do it early in the morning, gets hot quick down here. Compete against myself for now. May start riding with one of my pilots, who knows

[weaver]

Originally Posted by rola643

I ride alone a majority of the time but I like riding with others better than me ( which doesn't take much ). I can't or don't push myself enough to get better and after all that is my goal to better, faster, stronger and just better overall fitness.

I can definitely understand how riding with others can push someone harder.

Nice song krs5

[longjohn]

I like group rides. The fitness center where I work out has a weekly group ride. I ride that when my work schedule allows(which is almost never because they ride in the evening while I'm at work). I like the big event rides like the MS-150 and The Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure. Now that's a big group. That said most of my riding is solo. I live in the middle of nowhere, I ride to work. I'm the only one where I work that rides a bike. I just got back from a week in Williamsburg Va. I rode my bike alone. I used to haul my wife's and my sister in law's bike down to Virginia every time we would go visit her little sister. A lot of hauling and not much riding. This year I just brought my own. My wife likes me to ride with someone in case something happens. Can't find anyone wanting to do the rides I do at the times I have to do them. She about had a fit when I did the Washington to Pittsburgh trail by myself. I have had a few crashes over the years and yes ambulances were involved along with months long recoveries so I can see why my wife worries. In fact right now I'm still off work recovering from an accident where I was ambushed coming home from work at 11:30 at night. Three deer jumped me as I was going 25 mph down a hill, deer are evil. Now she thinks I shouldn't ride my bike to work.

[BeginnerCycling]

Hope you have a full and speedy recovery. Deer are a problem for me, too. I use a bright helmet mounted light at night and scan the road sides for them -- of course, they could jump out of the woods at any time. I need to get one of those silent whistles like they have for cars -- wonder how fast you need to go for them to work?

[CyclingNomad]

I will be riding solo when i head out this fall. However, if I meet up with someone on the road I might ride together for a day or two.

[R_Z]

Thought this a good place to jump in. I ride mostly solo. Working for myself and out of the house, I can pick odd times to hop on for a quick ride if I want, and sometimes I can even get out for an hour. On tuesday nites there's a small group that rides about 12 miles which I join most times. It's about 8 of us and it's fun to do. The other groups I know tend to ride before dawn which doesn't work for me. I like to sleep till at least 7am on weekends. Plus my heart doesn't start pumping till about 10am.

[trx1]

I ride alone, with nobody else. "george thourobike" lolol
im a soloist also. dont mind riding with others,
but noone hardly rides all yr like i do .

[longjohn]

I'm going on my first group ride of the year at 6pm today. The group rides hadn't started yet for the year when I hit the deer. I'm not back to work but almost there. I figured I better get a couple good rides in before I'm back to work and missing them all. This group usually averages 16+ mpr and rides 30 miles or so.