simonhill wrote: ↑24 Jan 2022, 9:03pm
On giving way on a shared path, I'm usually ringing my bell because they are walking 3 or 4 abreast often with a dog as well.
It is a shared path, so I think we should share sensibly. All I need is a narrow slot, enough to get safely by.
I normally get greeted well if I approach carefully and am often thanked, which leads me to think that not all passing cyclists are so careful
i think this is more the situation i was thinking. I think of it as pedestrians are giving way to me, as they have to take action to allow me to pass, but only because they are taking up the whole path, walking down the centre, having their dog off a lead etc. Maybe i should think of it as that they taking action to share the path.
i do approach carefully especially if there are dogs or little children who could dart out, and am often thanked. Although on some of the shared trails i ride on there is the habit of people jumping out of their skin when i cycle slowly up behind them and ask politely if i can pass, after a preliminary tinkle on approach. "i thought i heard a bell" is the usual statement.