You'd think I was the ring leader of some critical mass ride or something. About 20 folks went up to argyle coffee shop for a little socializing and then went out to paradise and back through Bartonville to the start in Flower Mound. Little did anyone know that a Bartonville police SUV was filming us all the way from 377 on Frenchtown road.
 
There were a few new riders and it was really really windy so long range communication wasn't too well. I was the assumed ride leader because I wasn't wearing a coat so had my club jersey in full view plus I had once or twice gone from the back to the front when we were going to hit a turn and someone new was in front. Then I'd wait till all to pass and in a couple more miles end up doing the same thing. I'm in front talking to a new guy and we hear a loudspeaker and I look back and everyone was already to the right and I couldnt' make anything out. I figured it was just some kids with a CB and loudspeaker but a minute or so later as I'm going 37 I see a big black SUV and the pull in behind me and activate their light bar.
 
I was thinking if I blew a stop sign or did something but really I sort of didn't do anything wrong that he wanted to talk about. When I was in the back I did see alot of 3-5 people  side by side however if there is a car approaching we always go single file. I did break the 2 abreast rule when I was passing and crossed the yellow line to pass, just like a car would, so I could communicate to the new rider up front because he was a good 100ft from everyone. He mentioned a few things that I just thought I'd pass on but everyone probably already knows.
-Ride at most two side by side
-Stay to on the right side of the road
-On two lane roads maybe unpair (which we did) until traffic clears up.
 
Things that concern me or I'm unsure of.
-Don't pass people going two side by side. If that were the case cars shouldn't be able to do it?
-Bartonville has on the agenda to restrict bicycle traffic on certain roads at certain times of the day (most likely commute times) - I kind of wish I had to pass through there for my commute because I'd love to go to court over that ticket (if the ordinance gets passed)
 
I am going to pass this on to the local clubs and my LBS who sponsers the jersey I was wearing    
 
He probably has me on video giogn back and forth like the do in nascar races to warm up their tires on a yellow flag. There were a few times I was in back and there were a bunch of people side by side behind me so I'd go from the right to the left of the lane over and over, still all on the right side.
 
 
Note: The office was very nice. He just wanted to give me a background and let me know what we did which was questionable and they were going start writing tickets. Also it was nice we got a heads up on a possible ordinance that they might be passing.
 

Quote from Killer Bee on Feb 28^th, 2009, 4:39pm:

That brings back fond memories of the first time I was pulled over _ever_ by a police officer. In double oak at 4 am or so in the morning  

Quote from Killer Bee on Feb 28^th, 2009, 4:39pm:

 
I hope I wasn't the reason for them watching stop signs  

Quote from evblazer on Mar 2^nd, 2009, 11:55am:

 
Only thing I ever noticed was the signs referring to rolling stops on the Kings road/Lusk/Simmons intersections, even then I think I saw maybe one cop monitoring traffic there once last fall, other than that I've rarely seen them. West Flower Mound on Shiloh going TO Double Oak seems to be much more active.  
 
If anything they seem to think I'm more of a curiosity than anything else, maybe you guys just need to ride Barons instead