Ride Leader Tips

Spokane Bicycle Club

• Waiver - Adobe Acrobat pdf format (Needs free Acrobat Reader.)

• Waiver - screen print (Results vary, depending on your printer)

Preparing for the Ride

• Your ride coordinator or Rides VP can assist you in ride planning and may have a map you can use. Consider including community events (fairs, artfests, etc.). Save your more strenuous rides for mid to late season when riders have increased their conditioning.

• Provide ride details to your ride coordinator: date, start time, destination, mileage, level of difficulty, description.

• If the course is unfamiliar to you, ride or drive it before ride day.

• Either hand-draw or photocopy a map of the course. Make enough copies so that each rider can have a map.

• Get a ride waiver from your ride coordinator or download from this site.

• If the ride will include a restaurant stop, notify the restaurant that the group is coming.

Day of Ride Duties

• Enforce the helmet rule. Riders without helmets may NOT sign the waiver, and are not part of ride.

• All riders must sign the Liability Waiver.

• Introduce yourself to anyone you don't recognize.

• Pre-ride announcements - note specific hazards, roughly describe the route, introduce any new people, and ask for questions.

• Assign a 'sweep'. This person will remain in back to help as needed.

• Complicated routes with many turns can be hard to follow. Put an experienced rider in front who can stop, guide everyone through the turn, then regain the lead; or ask riders to regroup, and remain together prior to difficult sections.

• If your ride has short/long options, appoint someone to lead the option that you are not riding.

• Return completed waivers to the Rides Vice-President.