View Poll Results: How do you feel about blocking intersections so that a group can stay together?
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How do you feel about blocking intersections?
Road Master
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 815
Likes: 28
From: Ontario, Canada
Nope don't agree with it. You don't have the legal right to impede others. How do you know someone in that other car isn't in a hurry. Maybe they need to get to a hospital, maybe they have an important appointment, job interview etc... A good road captain and rear gunner will recover from this easily. If not find another captain for your group. Also what happens if a vehicle goes through on the green and the blocker is hit? Who do you think will be at fault?
Last edited by harley_badboy; Jan 31, 2013 at 07:06 AM.
Grand HDF Member
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 4,067
Likes: 60
From: Chesterfield, VA
I ride with large groups sometimes .. PGR and ALR and they will block intersections. The only time I'm doing it is when there are cops involved.
When I'm in my cage I don't like it (when no cops are involved). It seems pompous, like they think they are above the law.
When I play ride captain, I try to split a big column up into groups. The groups behind always catch up eventually. If you got a red light just stop.
Most of the PGR missions I've been on have police escort anyway.
When I'm in my cage I don't like it (when no cops are involved). It seems pompous, like they think they are above the law.
When I play ride captain, I try to split a big column up into groups. The groups behind always catch up eventually. If you got a red light just stop.
Most of the PGR missions I've been on have police escort anyway.
6th Gear
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 11
Likes: 0
From: Ontario
This is why fall back riders were invented... It's not hard to get back together as a group if everyone knows the guidelines of group riding. If a group gets cut in half, and the lead group makes a subsequent turn, the last rider(in the lead group) falls back with his signal on so the second half of the group knows which way to go. It's really simple and works everytime as long as everyone in the group knows how it works at the offest.
Last edited by Gmundboy; Jan 31, 2013 at 08:51 AM.
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Road Master
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 895
Likes: 27
From: Outside Dover, OH
I ride with the PGR + am a road captain with HOG. HOG forbids it + PGR does it all the time IF they can't get LEOs to do it. I like the idea, but the liability is staggering. Legally, you don't have the authority. OTOH, we did it ALL the time in heavy highway construction. 
