@Beagleboy
> Which has led to a culture of 'if you can't keep up, you're dropped'.
Beagleboy, are you secretly a member of some other bike club in the area? I don't recall that we ever dropped anyone who could not keep up on any club ride I have ever attended; people occasionally get lost in the dark, but we always strive to ensure everyone is OK. (Mind you I was really worried about getting dropped and bruising my a*s when the guys carried me of the top of the 'Yat with a broken ankle, uncaring and unfriendly lot they are ...)
> I can fully understand why their attitude has changed, and I sympathise with it,
> but I don't like it.
You either do not understand the attitude, or have misrepresented it on this public forum. It's never been about dropping people behind, it was about not every official ride being a slow social pedal-along. The fact you could not see the need for this while being the official MTB Rep in the club is somewhat unfortunate for all concerned.
@Heather Bash
> Instead of all the introspective hand wringing
Get used to it, plus some of his stories are not half bad.
> why dont you just post up and ask if anyone else here rides in your area?
Well, he knows a great deal of people who ride in his area, but in a grandiose gesture worth of EastEnders (or should that be River City ?) he just announced to the world that he is divorcing us ... he is old enough to have known that starting this thread on ST was going to reflect badly on the Club in question, and unlike the ST audience the folk in his area have some clue to how things got to be this way. Talk about placing oneself in an awkward situation (not beyond repair, I am sure, but you know how it is with exes) ...
