Riding with ROAR — the terms

ROAR is a volunteer riding community. It is not a commercial tour operator, a training school, a travel agency or a rescue service. Rides are organised and led by unpaid members who ride the same roads as you, on their own bikes, at their own risk. There is no fee, no contract of service, and no guarantee of anything beyond a briefing, a planned route, and people who will not leave you behind.

Motorcycling carries a real and unavoidable risk of serious injury or death — from your own error, another rider's error, other road users, animals, road and weather conditions, mechanical failure, or events nobody could foresee. Riding in a group reduces some risks and introduces others. You accept these risks knowingly and voluntarily every time you ride with the group.

• Hold a valid licence for the motorcycle you bring, with valid insurance, registration and PUC.
• Bring a roadworthy motorcycle — see the pre-ride check.
• Wear proper protective gear on every ride — see the gear guide. Riders without gear are not permitted to ride with the group.
• Be medically fit to ride, sober and unimpaired, and rested.
• Attend and follow the pre-ride briefing and the ride code, and obey all traffic law.
• Ride within your own skill and the conditions — not the group's pace. You are always free to slow down, stop, or leave a ride.
• Carry your own means of contact, money, water and an emergency card, and tell the lead of any condition that could affect your riding.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, by joining a ROAR ride you agree that you ride entirely at your own risk; that Roar Riders, its organisers, ride leads, sweeps and members are not liable for any loss, injury, death, or damage to you, your motorcycle or your property arising from or during a ride, however caused, including where it arises from ordinary negligence in organising or leading the ride; and that you will not hold them responsible for the acts or omissions of other riders or third parties. You remain responsible for any damage or injury you cause to others.

The ride lead may ask any rider to leave the ride at any point — for riding dangerously, riding impaired, riding without gear, or repeatedly ignoring the briefing — and may change or abandon a route for safety. These decisions are final for that ride. If you are asked to leave, you continue on your own responsibility.

Photos and video taken on rides may be used by ROAR to show what the community does, without payment; tell the lead if you would rather not appear. The ROAR ride certificate records that you completed a ride with the group — it is not a licence, a qualification, or evidence of skill.

This is the community's plain statement of how it operates, not a lawyer-drafted contract. Nothing here removes a right you cannot waive under Indian law. Carry your own personal-accident and medical insurance regardless of what this says — the group's position is that every rider is responsible for their own cover.