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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.    [/quote]

[b]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 :)[/quote][/b]

Exactly! [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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