Cycle path etiquette

brooksby · 2015-04-16T08:07:36+01:00

So this morning I'm cycling to work on an off-road cycle path. There is a tump (a mound, with seats at the top), and the path goes around each side of it. I always treat it as a roundabout, and go around it clockwise. Except this morning, when someone comes around it anticlockwise, nearly runs into me, and then shouts at me for it. The location is at Ham Green outside Bristol - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Watchhouse+Rd,+Pill,+Bristol,+North+Somerset+BS20+0EN/@51.4778692,-2.6800858,167m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x48718d59deebca37:0xb901774999168bef So, I throw it out to the room: should we ride on cycle paths as if they are roads (clockwise around circular paths/gyratories, keep left (in the UK) on cycle paths, etc)? I'd appreciate comments, and really don't mean to troll.

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April 16, 2015 at 8:07 am #23753

brooksby

So this morning I’m cycling to work on an off-road cycle path. There is a tump (a mound, with seats at the top), and the path goes around each side of it. I always treat it as a roundabout, and go around it clockwise. Except this morning, when someone comes around it anticlockwise, nearly runs into me, and then shouts at me for it.

The location is at Ham Green outside Bristol – https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Watchhouse+Rd,+Pill,+Bristol,+North+Somerset+BS20+0EN/@51.4778692,-2.6800858,167m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x48718d59deebca37:0xb901774999168bef

So, I throw it out to the room: should we ride on cycle paths as if they are roads (clockwise around circular paths/gyratories, keep left (in the UK) on cycle paths, etc)?

I’d appreciate comments, and really don’t mean to troll.
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April 16, 2015 at 9:20 am #841789
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LarryDavidJr

Obviously just a dickhead,
Obviously just a dickhead, pay no heed. You’re doing nothing wrong.

April 16, 2015 at 8:49 am #841787
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kev-s

farrell wrote:I get this,
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I get this, when on a cycle path or trail my natural instinct is to go to the right, the complete opposite of how I’d behave on a road.

I have to make a conscious effort/decision to keep left and I have no idea why this.

Do you ride with your right foot forward? if so this is probably why

when riding a bmx if you ride right foot forward you find it easier to ride right to left on a ramp, if you ride left foot forward you find it easier to ride left to right on a ramp, it feels more natural to ride the same way as the foot you have facing forwards

I always ride on the left on cycle lanes and overtake on the right just as you would on the road

i think all cycle paths should have signs saying keep left, amount of times ive come round a bend to find someone flying round the corner on the right coming straight towards me

April 16, 2015 at 8:40 am #841785
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mrmo

treat it as a road,
treat it as a road,

April 16, 2015 at 8:38 am #841783
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farrell

I get this, when on a cycle
I get this, when on a cycle path or trail my natural instinct is to go to the right, the complete opposite of how I’d behave on a road.

I have to make a conscious effort/decision to keep left and I have no idea why this.

April 16, 2015 at 8:30 am #841781
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Al__S

Definitely keep left. Treat
Definitely keep left. Treat it all as if it’s a road.

April 16, 2015 at 8:18 am #841779
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pruaga

I tend to ride the commuter
I tend to ride the commuter paths near me as if they are a road, so keep to the left. Most, but crucially not all, other people seem to do the same.

I don’t know if there are any rules other than Wheaton’s rule, which shouting at someone would be breaking.
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