Group Ride Liabilities: How to Lower Yours

According to the rules of the road, there’s a difference between participating in a sport and riding your bike to work, to school, or going on a solo ride. The act of joining group rides as a sporting activity means that all participants have made an implied assumption of risk. They cannot be held liable to each other for ordinary negligence involving the inherent risks of the sport of cycling. In other words, if two cyclists accidentally collide on a group ride, for instance, it’s considered a risk they both assumed, even if it happened because one of them made a mistake.

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But depending on the type of role you take on when you organize a ride, you may be putting yourself at risk for liability. Here are some things that you can do to limit that possibility.

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