I set up group rides a lot. I'd say easily 30 per year. I don't do any of that stuff. No chase vehicle. Except on rare occasions, no trip sheet. Some times I make up the route on the go. About the only thing I normally have planned is the lunch stop but sometimes not even that. I give a short ride brief at the beginning of the ride and usually a brief description of the route and how we ride. Typically most of the group has ridden with me many time before and knows how things work.
The big thing is we don't try to ride like its a parade. No reason to stay together as a group. We re group at turns.
I did another group ride last Saturday. We had 13 riders. We had no issues. We rode at different speeds but never lost anyone. A couple of the riders had never ridden with me before.
I posted the ride on three different forums. there were two meeting spots. The first was a local motorcycle dealer.
The second was a gas station about a 30 minute ride away.
I didn't worry about enough space for everyone to pull into traffic as a group. We would re group at the next turn anyway.
We had a great ride.
One hazard of a group ride is if you drop your bike, someone may be there to document it for everyone to see in the ride report
This was one of those rides where I made up the route on the go. We went down a number of dead end trails and turned around.
While this was a dual sport ride, my street rides work the same way.
