Ha, that's a great point topflight! Very fair.
I brought the friends with. I did not go by myself.
One important point I didn't include was that they were doing this by riding up the middle or going well over the yellow line into head-on traffic and then kind of randomly moving about the group as they made their way up front. We had to adjust once to let them in as they didn't make it by, while riding over in head-on traffic, and a car was coming.