People you hate on trails, sidewalks, or other outdoor exercise venues...

[Anonymous]

If I'm stuck behind a biker going uphill, I just cheer them on and take my time, glad I'm not them. Go biker, go biker!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I'm stuck behind a biker going uphill, I just cheer them on and take my time, glad I'm not them. Go biker, go biker!

Haha - I pity them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're a family of runners and cyclists (DH commutes via bike and kids have biked to school and summer jobs), so we're on the Crescent Trail a lot. I don't hate anyone, but I do find it very annoying and rude when cyclists expect that saying "on your left" will immediately result in the runner,cyclist or walker they're trying to pass moving to the far right or even off the trail. On a multimodal trail, you need to accept that you'll have to slow down sometimes.

I can only speak for myself and not other cyclists, but when I say "on your left" it's not because I expect anyone to move off the trail. I say it because a lot of pedestrians or other cyclists will get into "their own little world" and will suddenly swerve to the left with no notice. By saying "on your left" I'm just warning them that I am coming and to not suddenly move directly in front of me. If the pedestrian/other cyclist maintains how they were going, it's all good

Exactly!

PP I take my DC's to ride on the cap crescent trail on the weekends with every other family out there and I am no pro and neither are they. They are little kids enjoying the ride and while I try to steer them in the right direction and teach them the "rules" about staying over to the right etc each time we are out there someone like you, probably meaning well, starts yelling at my kids "on your left, ON YOUR LEFT" to bring them out of "their own little world" where they are concentrating on the "rules" of the trail. Each time they have crashed into the brush while some pro bike riding asshat in full tour de france gear speeds off.

So what is your point? The other cyclists are following standard trail ettiquette, your children are not yet capable of it. So you think the entire world should conform to your kids, because you are bringing them somewhere they are apparently not ready to be/doing things they are not ready to do? Teach them them the rules in a place that is safer for them (and everyone else.)

Even if I am moving at 10 miles an hour, we still have a problem if your child doesn't stay in his lane and wobbles his bike in front of me. Do you expect everyone on a bike to stop, get off and walk around every child?

One of my peeves is anyone allowing small children to get more than a few feet in from of them. When they get out of your tech you can't control them. But you know that they are likely to do something that is erratic for the multi-purpose trail setting, such as blocking the trail while stopping, zig zagging across the trail or doing an unexpected u- turn. You need to stay in control of small children.

[Anonymous]

A brief clarification: I'm the poster who said it shouldn't be a problem to loop back for the poop. I meant to say you should clean it up and put it in the bag and then put it behind a bush/tree off to the side of the trail. I did not mean to suggest that people not pick up the poop at all until they return. That would be disgusting!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're a family of runners and cyclists (DH commutes via bike and kids have biked to school and summer jobs), so we're on the Crescent Trail a lot. I don't hate anyone, but I do find it very annoying and rude when cyclists expect that saying "on your left" will immediately result in the runner,cyclist or walker they're trying to pass moving to the far right or even off the trail. On a multimodal trail, you need to accept that you'll have to slow down sometimes.

I can only speak for myself and not other cyclists, but when I say "on your left" it's not because I expect anyone to move off the trail. I say it because a lot of pedestrians or other cyclists will get into "their own little world" and will suddenly swerve to the left with no notice. By saying "on your left" I'm just warning them that I am coming and to not suddenly move directly in front of me. If the pedestrian/other cyclist maintains how they were going, it's all good

Exactly!

PP I take my DC's to ride on the cap crescent trail on the weekends with every other family out there and I am no pro and neither are they. They are little kids enjoying the ride and while I try to steer them in the right direction and teach them the "rules" about staying over to the right etc each time we are out there someone like you, probably meaning well, starts yelling at my kids "on your left, ON YOUR LEFT" to bring them out of "their own little world" where they are concentrating on the "rules" of the trail. Each time they have crashed into the brush while some pro bike riding asshat in full tour de france gear speeds off.

This is your problem, not the bicyclist's problem. If you kids can't ride well enough to negotiate traffic, you should take them to a park or let them ride on your sidewalk or something.

[Anonymous]

Mixed use trails are just that - mixed use! That means avid cyclers, walkers, runners, kids learning how to ride their bike. As someone who lives off the custis trail, I definitely see a bike commute culture between the hours of 7-9am and again 4-6pm. I LOVE that people ride to work. I tend to avoid the trails at those times. However, they don't own the trails. As a parent who taught her kids to ride their bikes on the bike trails, I avoided high peak use times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mixed use trails are just that - mixed use! That means avid cyclers, walkers, runners, kids learning how to ride their bike. As someone who lives off the custis trail, I definitely see a bike commute culture between the hours of 7-9am and again 4-6pm. I LOVE that people ride to work. I tend to avoid the trails at those times. However, they don't own the trails. As a parent who taught her kids to ride their bikes on the bike trails, I avoided high peak use times.

Exactly this. You bike riding weekend warriors don't own the mixed use trail. Would you say the same shit about an elderly cyclist or walker? Not in a million years but you think you can say it's ok to treat a multi use trail like it is a designated bike path on a saturday afternoon and it is therefore fine to startle the shit out of children to the point that they crash.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're a family of runners and cyclists (DH commutes via bike and kids have biked to school and summer jobs), so we're on the Crescent Trail a lot. I don't hate anyone, but I do find it very annoying and rude when cyclists expect that saying "on your left" will immediately result in the runner,cyclist or walker they're trying to pass moving to the far right or even off the trail. On a multimodal trail, you need to accept that you'll have to slow down sometimes.

I can only speak for myself and not other cyclists, but when I say "on your left" it's not because I expect anyone to move off the trail. I say it because a lot of pedestrians or other cyclists will get into "their own little world" and will suddenly swerve to the left with no notice. By saying "on your left" I'm just warning them that I am coming and to not suddenly move directly in front of me. If the pedestrian/other cyclist maintains how they were going, it's all good

Exactly!

PP I take my DC's to ride on the cap crescent trail on the weekends with every other family out there and I am no pro and neither are they. They are little kids enjoying the ride and while I try to steer them in the right direction and teach them the "rules" about staying over to the right etc each time we are out there someone like you, probably meaning well, starts yelling at my kids "on your left, ON YOUR LEFT" to bring them out of "their own little world" where they are concentrating on the "rules" of the trail. Each time they have crashed into the brush while some pro bike riding asshat in full tour de france gear speeds off.

This is your problem, not the bicyclist's problem. If you kids can't ride well enough to negotiate traffic, you should take them to a park or let them ride on your sidewalk or something.

they ride just fine, why don't you take your $3000 racing bike and all your gear out into traffic and leave us alone or something

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're a family of runners and cyclists (DH commutes via bike and kids have biked to school and summer jobs), so we're on the Crescent Trail a lot. I don't hate anyone, but I do find it very annoying and rude when cyclists expect that saying "on your left" will immediately result in the runner,cyclist or walker they're trying to pass moving to the far right or even off the trail. On a multimodal trail, you need to accept that you'll have to slow down sometimes.

I can only speak for myself and not other cyclists, but when I say "on your left" it's not because I expect anyone to move off the trail. I say it because a lot of pedestrians or other cyclists will get into "their own little world" and will suddenly swerve to the left with no notice. By saying "on your left" I'm just warning them that I am coming and to not suddenly move directly in front of me. If the pedestrian/other cyclist maintains how they were going, it's all good

Exactly!

PP I take my DC's to ride on the cap crescent trail on the weekends with every other family out there and I am no pro and neither are they. They are little kids enjoying the ride and while I try to steer them in the right direction and teach them the "rules" about staying over to the right etc each time we are out there someone like you, probably meaning well, starts yelling at my kids "on your left, ON YOUR LEFT" to bring them out of "their own little world" where they are concentrating on the "rules" of the trail. Each time they have crashed into the brush while some pro bike riding asshat in full tour de france gear speeds off.

So what is your point? The other cyclists are following standard trail ettiquette, your children are not yet capable of it. So you think the entire world should conform to your kids, because you are bringing them somewhere they are apparently not ready to be/doing things they are not ready to do? Teach them them the rules in a place that is safer for them (and everyone else.)

Even if I am moving at 10 miles an hour, we still have a problem if your child doesn't stay in his lane and wobbles his bike in front of me. Do you expect everyone on a bike to stop, get off and walk around every child?

One of my peeves is anyone allowing small children to get more than a few feet in from of them. When they get out of your tech you can't control them. But you know that they are likely to do something that is erratic for the multi-purpose trail setting, such as blocking the trail while stopping, zig zagging across the trail or doing an unexpected u- turn. You need to stay in control of small children.

No I expect you to go around and not scream at children like a fucking lunatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're a family of runners and cyclists (DH commutes via bike and kids have biked to school and summer jobs), so we're on the Crescent Trail a lot. I don't hate anyone, but I do find it very annoying and rude when cyclists expect that saying "on your left" will immediately result in the runner,cyclist or walker they're trying to pass moving to the far right or even off the trail. On a multimodal trail, you need to accept that you'll have to slow down sometimes.

I can only speak for myself and not other cyclists, but when I say "on your left" it's not because I expect anyone to move off the trail. I say it because a lot of pedestrians or other cyclists will get into "their own little world" and will suddenly swerve to the left with no notice. By saying "on your left" I'm just warning them that I am coming and to not suddenly move directly in front of me. If the pedestrian/other cyclist maintains how they were going, it's all good

Exactly!

Agree with that in bold. It's useful when someone says "on your left", whether I'm the one on the bike, or I'm the pedestrian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mixed use trails are just that - mixed use! That means avid cyclers, walkers, runners, kids learning how to ride their bike. As someone who lives off the custis trail, I definitely see a bike commute culture between the hours of 7-9am and again 4-6pm. I LOVE that people ride to work. I tend to avoid the trails at those times. However, they don't own the trails. As a parent who taught her kids to ride their bikes on the bike trails, I avoided high peak use times.

Exactly this. You bike riding weekend warriors don't own the mixed use trail. Would you say the same shit about an elderly cyclist or walker? Not in a million years but you think you can say it's ok to treat a multi use trail like it is a designated bike path on a saturday afternoon and it is therefore fine to startle the shit out of children to the point that they crash.

It seems that you think that YOU own the mixed use trail. The "weekend warriors" only want to abide by standard biking etiquette. You seem to think your children should be able to take over the whole trail, and everyone else needs to accommodate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mixed use trails are just that - mixed use! That means avid cyclers, walkers, runners, kids learning how to ride their bike. As someone who lives off the custis trail, I definitely see a bike commute culture between the hours of 7-9am and again 4-6pm. I LOVE that people ride to work. I tend to avoid the trails at those times. However, they don't own the trails. As a parent who taught her kids to ride their bikes on the bike trails, I avoided high peak use times.

Exactly this. You bike riding weekend warriors don't own the mixed use trail. Would you say the same shit about an elderly cyclist or walker? Not in a million years but you think you can say it's ok to treat a multi use trail like it is a designated bike path on a saturday afternoon and it is therefore fine to startle the shit out of children to the point that they crash.

It seems that you think that YOU own the mixed use trail. The "weekend warriors" only want to abide by standard biking etiquette. You seem to think your children should be able to take over the whole trail, and everyone else needs to accommodate.

I used to bike trails and I always adjusted my riding based on trail conditions. If there were lots of kids, dogs, walkers on the trail I knew that it was going to be a slower ride for me.

[Anonymous]

Unleashed dogs, poop everywhere, and large strollers being used as people plows. Ugh

[Anonymous]

Women who wear unsupportive sports bras. I don't care if you jiggle, but why own one if it doesn't work? They are not bikini tops, they are sports bras.

[Anonymous]

Shirtless men. I see maybe 2 men all summer that really, truly have an attractive physique while running/biking. Not saying you're a hideous monster, but cover it up. Wear shirts in public, dudes.