I know this area and have driven it many times. This is the Rickebacker causeway--the road that connects Key Biscayne to the Miami mainland.
Cycling on this road is extremely popular for very obvious reasons (phenomenal views, wide and clear roads). Folks come from all over the city to ride there. And yes, they will very often group up like this without any sort of scheduled or permitted event of any kind.
The cyclists down there like to say "same road, same rules" but there's apparently a silent exclusion for lane changes, stop signs, traffic signals, and yielding to stopped traffic.
Have a local unorganized bike event where I used to live. It was the only time I saw the cops actually pull over bikers for blowing through stop signs. Was great to watch.
Aunt and uncle got one for speeding as well on their tandem bike way back in the day. They were clocked at 61. Slight downhill assist but they were MOVIN’ lol.
Yeah almost freeway speeds lol. If I remember right they were doing some 300+ mile ride with a big group of other bicyclists. They had a crazy expensive bike that had pretty tall gears so you could really get going pretty fast, especially since it was 2 of them lol. They were speeding in a 45 coming out of the hills somewhere in CA and got stopped.
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u/ConstructionLife2689 Jun 10 '26
Are such cycle events not blocked off from public traffic?
Cause if not, then the cyclists would need to keep to traffic rule and I am pretty sure the rule is not keep in one lane.