"I think every rider is seeing themselves in this tragedy."

Dulwich Hill Bicycle Club president Douglas Kirkham voiced the thoughts of hundreds of cyclists who gathered on Fitzgerald Avenue in Maroubra early on Wednesday morning to pay their respects to a young member who was killed at that very spot a week earlier.

Nicholas Ruygrok, 25, was on an organised weekly ride with fellow members of the Dulwich Hill Bicycle Club when he fell from his bike and into the path of an oncoming car at 6.30am on December 9.

Rather than abandon this week's ride, club members instead turned out in force to pay their respects to Mr Ruygrok, a law graduate and policy advisor to NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton.