Ride etiquette

So I think skydancer just told me I've got crap people management skills! Quite possibly true...

It probably doesn't merit a point on the list, but I just wanted to raise it somewhere to see if I was missing something and here felt like the right place.

@Laner I agree but a lot of the points on skydancer's list are true of all rides. Forum rides these days can have quite a broad range of abilities, which I find makes leading a ride more challenging.

let people go up the road, and that’s fine if they wait in a sensible position once they don’t know where to go (they rarely do, choosing instead to wobble all over the lane looking over their shoulders and generally being hazardous)

Yeah, I don't have a problem with people going ahead in principle. More the taking the wrong turning and splitting off half the group bit.

bitch at them constantly for half-wheeling and show-boating, even if they’re not actually doing it (the Buffalo Bill method)

Hah. I did an audax once with Bill and he did indeed repeatedly tell me off for half-wheeling, even though I felt I wasn't...

just fucking drop them, after telling them they can lead the rest of the ride if they’re that desperate to be at the front; either choosing a moment in the route that suits your strengths so you can definitively make them crack, or using your knowledge of the area in order to casually drift to the back of the group and then turn off at some unscheduled point, never to be seen again.

lol. I should point out my rides do generally get positive feedback, I'm not sure how I'd do this without also dropping the rear half. I don't intend to bolster my feedback by pulling slower riders along with a rope though :)

I'd be up for ride leader training if the date works David.