Rider Safety Guidelines
- Please carefully follow all the rider instructions below!
- Follow traffic laws: please do not be TICKETED as Police and Sheriffs patrol this route.
- This is a bike ride, not a race, and is held on OPEN ROADS with motor vehicles.
- All riders must follow the rules of the road, as defined in the California Vehicle Code
- Stop at ALL stop signs and lights, and ride within the bike lanes unless passing
- Riders agree to wear approved helmets while riding the bike in this event.
- All riders MUST have a bike number and wristband on the course for safety and access to SAG.
- We strongly suggest you bring at least TWO water bottles FULL of water/fluid as well as a cell phone. In consideration of your safety, do not wear earpieces in both ears during the ride.
- Participants must follow all instructions of law enforcement and/or fire officials
- Public safety vehicles have the right-of-way at all times!
- Ride Marshalls will be on bicycles on the course. They will be wearing vestsThey are cyclists like you, and are present to encourage safe and legal riding and to increase your safety
Please follow their advice, if offered - Use the toilets provided at the SAG Stops only, please!
- All riders must ride on the right-hand side of the road, not ride across the centerline, and should ride single file
- If a rider is unable to continue, he/she should move to a safe place off the road and signal a race vehicle for assistance, or call the dispatcher number provided on the PDF, or on handouts on event day.