>>1041150I've got people I ride with now and then, but never do any non-cycling stuff with them.
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>>1041212said, riding alone often works out better unless you know someone that rides the way you do. I don't mind riding slow, but the people that ride slow also tend to stop a lot and for far too long. And the people in the road clubs tend to turn every ride into a race, trying to drop as many people as possible in the first 30 minutes before dialing the pace back a little.
I also hate trying to work to a fixed schedule. Its nice to be flexible to delay the start by an hour or two if you have a cold morning, or shift a long ride to the next day if it happens to be shitty for a ride that was scheduled weeks or months in advance.
I ride with people even less now that I've come to appreciate the peace and quiet of deserted car free gravel roads.
