Group ride rules

01CC is built on safety, mutual respect and a culture of sport. These aren’t slogans — they’re our vision of what a club and a community should be.

A ride should be more than a shared activity on Strava. It should be a place where you feel comfortable and safe, and where you want to come back.

The rules below aren’t a formality. A group at speed is a system where one person’s mistake becomes a problem for everyone riding behind.

Registration and limit

Every ride has a rider limit. Registration closes as soon as all spots are taken.

The limit isn’t about being exclusive — it’s about keeping the group manageable on the road. A large, uncontrolled group is a danger to itself and to other road users.

If you’ve registered but can’t make it, cancel in advance so someone else can take your spot.

Format and level

For now, club rides are designed for experienced riders: confident bike handling, group riding experience and the fitness to match.

Before registering, take an honest look at the stated pace and distance. A club ride is not the place to test your limits for the first time.

Not sure the format is right for you? Message the Telegram chat https://t.me/zero_one_chat or the ride leader in advance — not 5 minutes before the start.

Start time

Arrive at the meeting point early, with your bike ready and bottles filled. We start exactly at the stated time.

The briefing happens before the start. If you’re late for it, you ride at your own risk and only with the ride leader’s permission.

Your bike has to match the ride format

• Road rides — road bikes only.
• Gravel rides — gravel bikes. MTBs are allowed too, but be honest about your fitness: keeping up with the group’s pace is harder on an MTB.
• TT bikes (time trial / triathlon), fixies, single-⁠speeds and any other bikes aren’t allowed on rides. Aerobars are a no too. Nothing personal — this is how the group rides safely and at one pace.

Condition

Your bike must be in working order before the start:

• brakes work, pads aren't worn out;
• tyres have no cuts or bulges, pressure checked;
• gears adjusted, electronic shifting charged;
• key bolts tightened, no play;
• no aerobars.

The ride leader may refuse a bike that is clearly unsafe.

Mandatory

• Helmet. No exceptions.
• Repair kit — everyone carries one: tube, tyre levers, pump or CO2, multitool.
• Charged phone.
• Water and food for the stated distance.
• Lights — strongly recommended, mandatory after dark.

About the repair kit

Everyone should be able to sort things out on their own — riding solo, in a group, or if you’ve dropped off and couldn’t let anyone know.

A repair kit “borrowed from a friend” isn’t a repair kit. If you can’t change a tube, learn before the ride — not on the roadside.

• The route must be loaded on your device before the start.
• If you save the route to your Strava profile, it syncs to your bike computer automatically.
• Knowing the route is everyone's responsibility, not just the ride leader's. It's critical if you fall behind, drop out or the group splits.
• No bike computer? Let the ride leader know before the start.

Briefing — no exceptions.

Before the start, the ride leader goes over the format, pace, route, regroup points and the rules for this ride. Everyone listens — including those who've ridden with us for years.

Don't be shy to ask if something is unclear. Better to find out on the spot than to guess along the way. Questions before the start are normal.

Basics

• Hold a steady line — no sudden steering and no diving into corners.
• No overlapping wheels: your front wheel never sits alongside the rear wheel of the rider in front.
• No half-⁠wheeling: when riding side by side, stay level — not half a bike ahead.
• Brake smoothly and early. Sudden braking is the main cause of crashes in a group.
• Don't get out of the saddle abruptly — the bike kicks back into the wheel behind.
• Don't look at your computer or reach for a bottle in a tight group.
• Don't stop pedalling in the bunch.

Signals

Pass them down the group — by hand and voice, from first to last:

• Turn — arm points the direction.
• Potholes / bumps — hand down and to the side.
• Stop — hand up.
• "Single file" — one finger up.
• Speed bumps / rails / gravel — the matching gesture down with a bent elbow.
• “Getting out of the saddle” — elbows flick up, or show your palm to the rider behind.
• "Thanks" — thumbs up.
• Everything else — 🤌🤌🤌

Everyone passes the signal on, so the whole group knows what’s happening.

Traffic rules

We ride on public roads and follow the traffic rules. Red lights, signs, road markings, pedestrian crossings — they all apply to us too. Club kit gives you no privileges on the road, but it does make you recognizable.

Be ready for direct communication — at speed, information has to be passed on instantly, with no offence and no long explanations.

We discuss the why over coffee after the ride, not on the move.

Flat or mechanical

• Raise your hand, call it out to the group and move smoothly to the roadside.
• The group stops in a safe place, not in the middle of the lane.

You decide to leave the ride

Tell the ride leader. That's the only requirement. The group shouldn't have to work out at the regroup whether you went home or are lying in a ditch.

Crash

• The group stops. At least one person stays with the rider who went down.
• We assess the situation and call for help if needed.

Head / neck injury or loss of consciousness — don’t move the rider, call an ambulance (103 or 112).

Dropped

• Call out or message the Telegram chat https://t.me/zero_one_chat
• If you’ve lost the group, follow the route on your device to the nearest regroup point — they’re announced at the briefing (if any).

The ride leader is responsible for the group on the route. Their decisions during the ride are final.

The ride leader may:

• refuse entry to the ride for an unsafe bike, no helmet or repair kit, or a bike that doesn’t match the format;
• change the route or pace for the group's safety;
• remove from the ride anyone who endangers the group or doesn't meet club requirements.

Disagreement with the ride leader is discussed after the ride — with them in person or with the club. Not on the move.

On the road, in the chat and on social media.

Unacceptable

• putting down someone else's level, pace, bike or kit;
• "lecturing" newcomers instead of explaining;
• arguing on the move;
• toxic comments under club content and in the chat;
• any form of discrimination or harassment.

We don’t count other people’s watts or turn a ride into a race unless the format calls for it.

Repeated violations of these rules are grounds for removal from the club.

• Every rider rides at their own risk and is responsible for their own health, the condition of their bike and following traffic rules.
• The club and ride leaders are not liable for injuries, damage to property or incidents on the route.
• Riders under 18 — only with the club's approval.