This ride is open to absolutely anyone on any kind of bike (trikes are also neat, unicycles TBD), regardless of skill level, except if you're going to be a jerk toward other people, but that's never come up and would be very weird, and addressed directly.

We'll announce the distance and approximate terrain for the ride about a week and a half in advance, so you can decide if the specific ride is the kind of thing that would be a nice time for you that day.

There isn't a "pace" that you have to keep up, this is a social ride. If you can ride 10 to 15 km/h (twice as fast as a brisk walking pace) you're absolutely good to go.

This is a no-drop ride. That means we take responsibility that nobody will be left behind all by their lonesome unless that's what you'd prefer. In practice, we'll make sure that as well as providing a ride leader, someone from C&L will also be the last rider of the group at all times.

This is a self-supported activity. That means you bring all your own stuff and bring it back with you: water, coffee, snacks, bike tools and spares, etc. There typically isn't anywhere to pick that stuff up early of a morning and our destinations usually don't have cafés on hand, either.

Wear whatever you want, there's no such thing as "cycling gear" for this kind of short, moderately-paced ride.