Organised rides out that use motorways?

[Barnoe]

Why do so many organised rides, use the motorway?

I was invited on one recently and it was mostly motorway so didnt bother.

The biggest ride i do each year is the Ride to the Wall, again this is all motorway.
Don't get me wrong its for a great cause but why not use A roads at least?

If i wanted square tyres id buy em that way lol
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[MarJay]

Does seem a bit silly, excludes L platers too.
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[linuxyeti]

There seemed a few L platers on the Bike4LIfe ride last Sunday, but, anyhow, I can fully understand why the M54 was used for that, 7000 bikes down the A roads would cause mayhem, as it was the M54 must have been closed to all other traffic, for at least an hour, probably more like 1 1/2 hours.

The M54, you have guaranteed 2 lanes to fill with bikes, same goes for a fair chunk of the A5 leading to it.

I guess for smaller ride outs, then A roads may be fine, I suspect the motorway makes it easier to manage the traffic.
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[Matt B]

[Barnoe]

[definitelyinc...]

I just outright avoid those (a road and m road) rides unless there's a valid reason for it (i.e far away) going through country lanes is the way forward.

I can get to southend in 40 minutes or less depending on traffic etc. but made that ride into 3+ hours, enjoyed it way more.

[talkToTheHat]

...in order to exclude L-plates?
...in order to discourage the kind of riders that drag knees/pegs/elbows given the faintest opportunity?
...because the target demographic only rides on the 3 sunny sundays a year and can't go round corners?
...because route planners lazy?
...becasue police/council said no to every other route because trying to assassinate the ride without directly saying no.
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[andyscooter]

ive done rttw a few times


ive never ridden on the motorway once

we went the second third and fourth year #

it was mostly harlys but there were other bikes there as well we always went from drayton manor
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[Barnoe]

Last year was woeful, set off at 7am got home at 7pm in torrential rain.....i spent about 9 hours of that on my bike.
The so called waterproof gear i had on was useless, i couldn't have got more wet if i went for a swim in my clothes!

I think the organisers need a sport bike route and keep the motorway one for cruiser.
The Cat and Fiddle is about halfway for me, so using that as a meeting point instead of Sandbach Services would be a good start

[andyscooter]

We used to take the rest of the club

At least half were L platers
And we met in bridge north

Also used to take 50ccers with us
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[wristjob]

the easy way to deal with this.
check the route,
check the date.
then make sure you are nowhere near the route on the day in question.
easy.