Yeah, I dropped out of my bicycle club about 1990. Too many leftist weenies thinking others should lead their lives the way the lefties wanted them run. That and there were increasing numbers of riders I didn't feel particularly safe sharing the road with on group rides. I'm one to talk though. The only time in ten years that I actually contacted a fellow club member was when I accidentally rear ended somebody in the middle of the Mackinac Bridge.
You did give me a good idea though. I should dust off my 30 year old race bike and OC a big stainless 1911 on the weekly Wednesday night ride, without a foam hat on my head of course.