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!

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.

Anonymous wrote:To 20:14 Sometimes dog owners do this because there isn't a trash can ( on a loop trail ) and they plan to pick it up on their way out. This way they don't have to carry it around. Now if they don't pick up on the way out than I agree that is a jerky thing to do!

It's still a jerky thing to do. Your dog, carry your dog's poop.

People with toddlers who toddle all over the place on a public path with a parent guarding the whole path so no one can pass. Does not happen on a bike path for obvious reasons. Usually grandparents.

To 20:14 Sometimes dog owners do this because there isn't a trash can ( on a loop trail ) and they plan to pick it up on their way out. This way they don't have to carry it around. Now if they don't pick up on the way out than I agree that is a jerky thing to do!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not a car. Move your bike off to the right. You are holding up hundreds of cars behind you that now have to go 30-40mph below the speed limit.

I am an avid runner and biker. Multiple marathons and bike races, countless training hours and I never for once thought I was a car.

People are taking the lane on a 55MPH road? Where is this?

I never take the lane on a road faster than 35MPH posted limit. For that to make someone go 30MPH below the speed limit would mean I am riding at 5MPH (I go faster than that even uphill, and I do not take the lane uphill on steep grades) Also if I am taking the lane on a 35MPH road, there is usually either an easy way to pass in an adjacent lane, or I do it for a very short distance only.

Most of the places I take the lane are 30MPH posted limit or 25MPH. You do the math.

Congrats, and when you take the lane going uphill on Wisconsin, 16th St, Connecticut or Reno Road during rush hour, and the speed limit is 25 or 30 as you point out, please explain why the 50 cars stuck behind you should be delighted to be going 5 mph (which is what you're doing uphill, don't lie) instead of 25 or 30 in the case of Connecticut.

-- a sometimes cyclist who has done all those hills, many times, so she knows you're FOS when you claim in a minute that you're keeping up with traffic.

I've found it much safer to take the lane than let those same 50 cars pass in my lane at 10-15 mph over the speed limit.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not a car. Move your bike off to the right. You are holding up hundreds of cars behind you that now have to go 30-40mph below the speed limit.

I am an avid runner and biker. Multiple marathons and bike races, countless training hours and I never for once thought I was a car.

People are taking the lane on a 55MPH road? Where is this?

I never take the lane on a road faster than 35MPH posted limit. For that to make someone go 30MPH below the speed limit would mean I am riding at 5MPH (I go faster than that even uphill, and I do not take the lane uphill on steep grades) Also if I am taking the lane on a 35MPH road, there is usually either an easy way to pass in an adjacent lane, or I do it for a very short distance only.

Most of the places I take the lane are 30MPH posted limit or 25MPH. You do the math.

Congrats, and when you take the lane going uphill on Wisconsin, 16th St, Connecticut or Reno Road during rush hour, and the speed limit is 25 or 30 as you point out, please explain why the 50 cars stuck behind you should be delighted to be going 5 mph (which is what you're doing uphill, don't lie) instead of 25 or 30 in the case of Connecticut.

-- a sometimes cyclist who has done all those hills, many times, so she knows you're FOS when you claim in a minute that you're keeping up with traffic.

+100

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Anonymous wrote:I live in the suburbs and everyone rides bikes on the sidewalks or trails, except for the Serious Bikers, who ride in the street.

WTH are some of these people saying bikes don't belong on sidewalk . I've been yelling at my kids to stop riding on the street!! It is dangerous, am I wrong?

No! You are wise. You just teach them pedestrian safety.

Anonymous wrote:I live in the suburbs and everyone rides bikes on the sidewalks or trails, except for the Serious Bikers, who ride in the street.

WTH are some of these people saying bikes don't belong on sidewalk . I've been yelling at my kids to stop riding on the street!! It is dangerous, am I wrong?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not a car. Move your bike off to the right. You are holding up hundreds of cars behind you that now have to go 30-40mph below the speed limit.

I am an avid runner and biker. Multiple marathons and bike races, countless training hours and I never for once thought I was a car.

People are taking the lane on a 55MPH road? Where is this?

I never take the lane on a road faster than 35MPH posted limit. For that to make someone go 30MPH below the speed limit would mean I am riding at 5MPH (I go faster than that even uphill, and I do not take the lane uphill on steep grades) Also if I am taking the lane on a 35MPH road, there is usually either an easy way to pass in an adjacent lane, or I do it for a very short distance only.

Most of the places I take the lane are 30MPH posted limit or 25MPH. You do the math.

Congrats, and when you take the lane going uphill on Wisconsin, 16th St, Connecticut or Reno Road during rush hour, and the speed limit is 25 or 30 as you point out, please explain why the 50 cars stuck behind you should be delighted to be going 5 mph (which is what you're doing uphill, don't lie) instead of 25 or 30 in the case of Connecticut.

-- a sometimes cyclist who has done all those hills, many times, so she knows you're FOS when you claim in a minute that you're keeping up with traffic.

Anonymous wrote:fat people that walk side by side

Is it ok for hot people to walk side by side and take up the whole trail? how about one hot woman and her fat friend -- where do you draw the line? Please don't say 'thin people don't hog the trail by walking 2-3 abreast', or I'll know you've never been on the Cap Crescent, Mt. Vernon or RCP asphalt trails in your entire life

Anonymous wrote:Cyclists who disobey traffic signs and signals put on trails specifically for them at road crossings. Hard to teach kids to obey rules when adults blow by. There are several 4 ways stops (2 for those on the trail) in Herndon and cyclists routinely ignore them. Near the old train station the trail has a stop sign but the road does not -- in this particular case the bikes/walkers are supposed to yield to cars -- cars yield if someone is already in crosswalk.

Thats all fine and good but then as a cyclist, when I actually stop at a stop sign, I get clipped by the car tailgating me (as happened yesterday). No win situation.

Anonymous wrote:People who let their kids ride their bikes on the sidewalk and then get mad when you are in their way while walking. If you are old enough to ride in the street, do it. If not, go to a park with your kids to ride. Bikes don't belong on the sidewalk, regardless of the age of the rider.

Except for the urban core, bikes are legal on sidewalks everywhere in the region. Grow up.

Dog owners who leave the bags of poop along the trail. Drives me insane! Do they think there is some magic fairy who comes to throw it out? If you have a dog, carry the damn shit to a garbage can.

People who use their double wide jogging stroller as a plow through crowded areas.

Anonymous wrote:People who let their kids ride their bikes on the sidewalk and then get mad when you are in their way while walking. If you are old enough to ride in the street, do it. If not, go to a park with your kids to ride. Bikes don't belong on the sidewalk, regardless of the age of the rider.

PPs, you are SO missing the point here. The problem is the sense of entitlement the parents display when they get mad that you, the adult pedestrian, don't leap into traffic to give the sidewalk to their special snowflake on a bike. Sure little kids can ride on the sidewalk. But teach them to yield to pedestrians just like any other cyclist! Signed, not OP