Suggestion for CCM in the future

Anybody still have some old Nextels or short range walkie talkies? All we'd need is 4 or so.

My suggestion is that have the leaders in front (obviously) then have a tail and if it seems like the group is getting to spread out communicate it to the front and have a slow down or stoppage to "mass up" ?

Rumor has it that an ambulance broke up the mass in Wicker so I don't know if that had anything to do with being so spread out. As well as the incidents along the way. but a little communication goes a long way.

The point is to ride together as a mass.

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Permalink Reply by Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer! on August 29, 2010 at 11:15am
Howard, if you're serious, yes.

To those of you who have the idea like let's establish this or that standard in the Mass you're just waisting your effort. There are only thee constants to any given Mass: 1) It's the last Friday of the Month and we meet at Daley Plaza around 5:30'ish; 2) At some point the group will take off en masse; and 3) people yell "Happy Friday." Anything after that is really going to be dependent on the per-ride variability of pre-planning. You could establish a leadership system for that ride but there is no guarantee that whoever leads (or doesn't) it next month will follow it. Sometime it's very important to plan these things out in advance to avoid problems other times not so much.
Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on August 29, 2010 at 4:30pm


Great shot!

The only possible down side to having a dozen mini-masses spawning at the end is that it would make things harder for the police as any one of these could make a break for LSD or one of the other expressways.

I'd say that's what we had as I was with a group all the way to Clark/Belmont then headed East to the LSD bike trail, I headed back towards home then met another group at Fullerton.
No wonder drivers get mad if a group of riders stretches out that long.

After next month the group will thin due to weather so...carry on.

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