Road captain, tail gunner, scout

These three are jobs on one ride, not ranks. They are picked per ride and can be different people next weekend — your rank in the club does not give you any of them.

Road captain — leads

• The only one who changes the route: rerouting, adding and skipping stops.
• The only one who ends the ride for everybody. Rank in the club is not enough — a President who is not the RC of that ride does not get END RIDE.
• If nobody is named, it is whoever created the ride.

Tail gunner — closes the formation

• Rides last so nobody is left behind.
• Pack watches the gap between riders along the route and warns the whole group when somebody falls too far back. The default is 800 m, and a ride can be set to its own number.
• A phone that goes quiet is not treated as dropped: a frozen position in a pocket is not a rider who stopped.

Scout — rides ahead

• Goes out in front on purpose to read what is coming.
• Because of that, the scout is taken out of the drop detection — otherwise the banner would call them dropped the whole ride.
• Instead the app measures how far ahead of the road captain they are, along the route, and tells the RC at 3 km ahead (clearing again under 2.5 km) or if they end up behind the RC — they stopped and the pack went past.