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Well excuse me, perhaps it wasn't *you* on the trail. proper trail etiquette does not work when someone is screaming on your left when there is no time to react. That is, the rider is already on top of you and whizzing past. No one wants your encouragement. what they want is for you to slow down and recognize that you are on a shared, mixed-use trail. Otherwise take your gold plated huffy out on Connecticut Avenue where you become the hunted. These are the same pricks that hang out at starbucks and the bagel place all day in between "races" in their spandex.[/quote]

Yes, people should call a pass several seconds ahead, if it is at all possible.   I find most people do.

I don't think any kid minds my calling "good job".

As I said I fully recognize it is a shared multiuse trail. Some cyclists do not. Some runners do not. Some pedestrians do not. It kind of sounds like you do not.

As for Connecticut Avenue, I do not ride in Upper NW, excepting one  jaunt up the C&O canal, when I can assure you I was not going very fast.  Your tone toward cyclists is rather hostile I might add.   I sometimes do have to deal with jerk motorists (and the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed by motorists is far higher than than pedestrians killed or seriously injured by cyclists) but I do try to avoid that kind of bitterness toward all motorists.

BTW, lots of folks who wear lycra are nice and polite.  The lycra is functional.   And what is wrong with coffee and a bagel?   [/quote]

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