Gerry Bouchard wrote:
<blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em">Personally, I am tired of having beer cans thrown at me while I ride.
Witnessing the behavior on GCC group rides over the past four years
has certainly explained some of the anger that has been expressed my
way. Every ride, even the non-aggressive rides, seem to have at least
one rider who will not move into the bike lane. Self policing our
rides may seems likely recourse, but for the most part it does not
occur. Validating that behavior by citing law gives me little hope
things will improve.
</blockquote>
I just want to chime in for a few comments here..

First, the bad behavior isn't just limited to riding.  I was extremely
disappointed that at the last TT I picked up a couple of empty gel
wrappers in the front yard of the house across the street from the
starting line.  Vanilla GU's aren't candy, they're not sold in
convenience store's and it's pretty obvious when the wrappers are
floating down a street that had ~30+ cyclists where the source came
from.  There is no reason for that.

Second, we need to do a better job of calling out and steering around
obstacles.  On the Thursday night GCC north ride I double flatted less
than a mile from the roll-out because someone didn't point out/steer
around a giant rock.  Yesterday we had a similar thing nearly happen
with a giant piece of wood on Williston Rd.  Apparently the first four
people got the word about it, but the message was lost after that, and
an out of town visitor nearly had a mishap within three miles of the start.

This is basic stuff here, even a n00b like me gets it.

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