This is from a regularly scheduled Everglades Bike Club weekend ride in Key Biscayne, USA, on a 10km stretch of road, and all the drivers know to expect it will be there in the mornings.

  • destructdisc@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 days ago

    From what I’ve found, yes, these larger group rides are held every weekend, in addition to much smaller ones practically every day

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      6 days ago

      It is key to remember that if it was one person or a handful of people the cars would still be beeping as they passed, driving way too close, and endangering the cyclists. Safety in numbers is real and in this situation anyone sane stays behind the group of cyclists or finds another route. It really is an effective strategy.

      Also, if each of those people was in a car it would be absolute gridlock. That car would not have been getting where they were going faster in that case.

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      6 days ago

      Oh wow that would totally piss me off and I don’t even have a drivers license and bike everywhere, everyday.