Overtaking on Trailcentre singletrack - Whats the etiquette?

Anonymous

deadkenny, I'm sure that breaking the highway code is not a prosecutable offence, but disregard of the highway code can be used to suggest that something was being driven without due care and attention. Something like that.
Sadly.
Mythbusters now is testing hollywood car weapons, like hub mounted cutters.
I reckon it should be made a law that these things are allowed against caravans :twisted:

felix.london

miss notax wrote:

As someone who can remember what it's like to be a slow and steady beginner, can I just add not to get too close to the person that you're behind (unless you have said that you're passing them)? It used to really stress me out to hear someone close behind me when I didn't know what they were doing - I would panic about finding somewhere to stop (not always that easy in your average UK trail centre centre) and about 50% of the time it would end up with me having an off and wondering if I was about to get ridden over :?

I try to remember this as i'm now the person riding up behind people and I really do try to listen to my own advice and not freak people out! As someone said earlier, I think a cheery 'excuse me' goes a long way

Agree with everything except it's "excusez-moi" 'round these parts

bennett_346

yeehaamcgee wrote:

bennett_346 wrote:

It's a bit like driving with a caravan, you just accept you have to let people past now and again.

I have never, ever seen a caravan pull over to allow traffic past. We're inundated with hundreds and hundreds of the damned things here all summer, and I have never seen one pull over.

Agreed but thankfully we don't have too many on the roads up here.

cooldad

I would have thought Gateshead was a prime tourist destination.
Cosmopolitan shopping


Celebrities


Beaches

cooldad

OK I lied about the last one.

Sunderland rules.

R+P+K

I usually just say "on your right" or "on your left" if they haven't seen me. If they pull over, they get a "thank you" and I'm on my way.

S-M

Its even worse when you get alongside the bloke at the front, and a thorn sticks in your tyre :?

paul.skibum

If you get to close to the rider in front and you are both travelling at speed it can be hard to pull over as the front rider doesnt want to brake and get hit.

Hanging back and giving the front riders some space is a good idea - if he is part of a group though I'd expect him to let you by and regroup with his friends fairly frequently.

Last time I was at Afan the few riders I saw on the trail let me by if they needed to (usually by pausing at a switchback) but for the most part I gave them room and passed them on the interconnecting fireroads.

bennett_346

cooldad wrote:

please change my colostomy bag

Mccraque

correct etiquette is to buzz their backwheel, then force them off the trail, down a steep incline.

colt

Shamelessly stolen from another forum! ride like the bloke at the beginning of this video?

http://vimeo.com/23089489

Briggo

Christ almighty if you stopped that much it'd take you a year to do a 10 mile trail.