Description:

Most bikers know the general rules for driving in the group, but it can sometimes be very helpful to visualize one or the other again.


This tour rules serve primarily the safety of all participants and ensure that the tour for all (whether novice / beginner or intermediate / advanced) can be driven without any stress.

Expect while driving according to the mistakes of others and choose your speed and distance! To avoid an unfair procedure, each participant should realize before a tour, the following rules:

On time and with a full tank
All participants will arrive on time and filled up (the machine, not the driver!) At the agreed meeting point. Before the start of the Tour of tour guide informed the passengers about the approximate route and may be known danger spots.

The tour guide divides the group into experienced and inexperienced riders and drivers, where the / weakest one with the machine and / or the least experience driving directly behind the tour guide! This order is observed over the entire tour. Within the group is overtaking!

Finally there is a driver / a driver who knows the track or at least the possibility of intermediate stops and the group in case of separation even further alone can lead to the next stopping point.

Applies to the tour guide:
Overtaking and acceleration maneuvers begin only when the entire group is together! At the top of the group should be driven generally restrained.

The tour guide remembers the last driver / rider in the last group to verify this by looking in the rearview mirror on completeness. For this purpose, can be extremely helpful for larger groups, the use of a safety vest.

At bus or catch the tour guide points is planning plenty of room for all participants with one, ideally so that all can continue in the group order.

Fuel stops and pauses are planned in sufficient form for the Tour and preparation before the actual tour announced.

Applies to the participants:
Everyone is responsible for the back of his man! Very important: even emergency stop, but it does not obstruct other road users. If you find that your man is behind much slower or stops, so do not let him disappear from the mirror, but believe in yourself and make your front man possibly with flasher and / or horn attention to the situation.

Also, she / he should stop and then also make the man in front of flashing and / or horn attention. This propagates to the top group, so will notice also the tour guide, a group member has a problem.

ONLY and ONLY then turns to the tour guide if necessary, to set things right. The rest of the group is waiting!

The offset mode at group rides:
On straight road sections within the group is put down. The tour guide drives the center / left and right offset of the next to him and so on. At stops / traffic jams etc. The group holds in two rows.

Very important: If the offset catch driving NEVER put too close to the moving vehicle in front or even drive on the same height! In an abrupt evasive braking you have NO CHANCE to avoid an accident! The necessary safety distance must be maintained ALWAYS! The prescribed speed limits are adhered to.

A little tip in terms of “blind spots”: Watch out for the person in front of your mirror! If you can see his visor in the mirror so he can see you and you are not dead in the corner!

However let the distance to the preceding TO are not large, because after all the traveling distance of the group members have to catch up again and forced thereby, are faster than the preceding vehicle to drive!

When the curve is shifted driving routes dissolved and everyone goes on his safety line. It is designed to provide reasonable distance from the vehicle ahead! After a curve on a straight road section back to the offset procedure was added.

Stopping at intersections, bridges, ferries, traffic jams etc.
Should be required by the traffic situation in a continuation of the group, thus forming the group a series of two. While keeping the spacing from the vehicle as low as possible to a rapid start-up or to allow crossing the intersection and keep the group shortly.

Overhaul
Within the group is strictly no overtaking! Should it be necessary to overtake another vehicle outside the group, each participant is responsible for his overtaking! After completion of the reserves of overtaking overtaking at its speed, so for the following participants have enough space to tuck himself!

Can the tour guide, the road far enough to view, he may remain after overtaking on the left and continue to flash on the left to indicate the following, that the road is still free. The group does not release members of their own responsibility for their overtaking!

If the tour group will be rebuilt once, so the passing vehicle without danger reeving is made possible even within the group.

Can not follow suit and do not push!
Each rider / driver should make sure everyone at intersections or when overtaking saying that the route is free! It is extremely dangerous to have to go along by the vehicle ahead! Also, the man behind always count on a sudden braking maneuvers his front man!

The order of the group is also observed when overtaking ALWAYS! Even if the front man hesitates! Under no circumstances push or overtake
the group member!

Refuel and breaks
Principle which works on one fill up all. The group member with the lowest fuel intervals are thus up to the fuel rate.

Uses the break to give the tour guide feedback on driving style and speed and also says quietly, if you find the pace too fast. The tour guide should take this feedback to heart and adapt their driving style
accordingly.

Basically:

• Be fair and take into consideration on the other.
• Credited with the mistakes of others and fits your driving style to it.
• In a heterogeneous group (in terms of driving experience and style) is determined by the weakest / the weakest of the speed.

Of course, each group at certain points, such as speed, etc., prior to departure also make different agreements. Nevertheless, certain principles of fairness and respect should not be ignored.