[Closed] Trail centre etiquette.

Elite storm trooper ON YOUR RIGHT

and then overtake on the left.

What do others say when passing you?
Or does that never happen?

Usual practice is to sit roughly an inch of their back wheel and make sure you have got your loudest set of pro2's clicking away like mad.

Experienced mountain biker coming through.

I just go "NEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOWWWWWW"""

"I'm on your right"
...
"cheers"

inversely

"go throught"

Most people let me through but normally I pick a side and shout it

Or does that never happen?

another trick is to attempt to give people the space they need.

I have no kind of benchmark as I've not heard anyone requesting to pass me, mainly as no-one has passed me!

Haha, is that a challenge? I promise you'll come off worse when I t bone you off at the first corner! 😉

Seriously though, you mainly ride degla don't you? Not surprised you never get passed, everyone I've ever seen there is slower than the shifting of the continental plates! Just shout "on your right" and pass on the right when it's convenient enough to get past without too much trouble...

what is the rush? seriously! trailcentre too slow/bogged with people? **** it Don you have North Wales to play with! no?

At trail centres I only ever really pass strangers on climbs or the fire roads so just chat with them as I pass, on descents I wait for a big gap before I set off to get a clean run but if I do catch them I'll pull over until they've given me a big enough gap to go again (or sometimes I'll push back up for a full run again). it's not a race 😆

**** it Don you have North Wales to play with! no?

[i]Or does that never happen?

Have a quick look at the last line of the OP.[/i]

I bow down to thee what art ovbiouosly the fastest on the (trail centre) planet.

I agree with GW which must mean I need a large drink!
He's right, It ain't a race it's a bunch of grown men riding bikes in the woods.

I was once passed with the immortal words, "elite rider passing on the right, sugartits!"

Caught up with the rider. It was my husband.

Although to be fair, he says that to everyone he passes.

"Room for a sweaty one?" Normally space is made for an overtake.

I just go "NEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOWWWWWW"""

love this ha

Pass like a train innit. If you need to announce which side you're going for, you're not really fast enough to be passing...

That's what I said when I overtook you earlier parkes

HTFU, launch off the side of the trail, cut through the woods then gap jump onto the trail right infront of them. then shout 'on UR right'

sounds about right to me, no?

Don if you're riding at degla just pop out into the clywds, ace riding and no trail centre buffoonary to put up with. May be out on sunday morning if you fancy a guided ride

'To your right/left' depending on where they are positioned - get passed plenty uphill, but never DH yet with the exception of Fort Bill Black

Don: me n elfin are based in llandudno area for a week of bike shenanigans from sunday if you fancy meeting up to ride bicycles around less stressful places without bloody humans in the way!

+1,000,000 gw 🙂

Don if you're riding at degla just pop out into the clywds, ace riding and no trail centre buffoonary to put up with. May be out on sunday morning if you fancy a guided ride

I just go "NEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOWWWWWW"""

the berwyns are brilliant fun!

I think I'm going for a play on the Upper Ceiriog Way to get my bearings and see what's out there tomorrow, little by little. I'm slowly getting used to mtb UK.

Just use a little ping bell only £3 or less. Polite and only occasionally freaks people out like this bloke down the marina earlier. 😆 His GF thought it was funny, and the dog looked at him in disgust.

Don; come over to Llandudno with us lot, innit?

Sign up to MBNW and find out about rides all over t'shop.

http://northwalesmtb.proboards.com/

Try "joputaquitatedeenmedioostia"

Works for me, it's the same in welsh.

Don't be silly.

Can't be the same in Walish; there's actually some vowels in there....

😆
Works for me, missing a bit of máricon just to smooth things along,no?
DH in [url= http://www.fmciclismo.com/fmc3/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1824&Itemid=1 ]Hoyo de Manzanares[/url] mañana...

I overtook someone once.

I think the phrase I used was 'Do you need a hand with that puncture?'

I overtook someone once.

I may be slow sweetie, but I can keep going all day 😀

MUAK!

no worries don. be good to see ya on the trails 🙂 or anyone else!

It'll probably happen in the spring now, damned crappy shitty weather, I'm about to go into hibernation. Toofuggincoldandwettorideafugginbike! 😀

I was expecting GW to just ride over people!

... but have to agree with him, on trail centre riding.

Another vote for GW. I would feel rude sitting on someones tail, so I always hang back to get a clean run.

Luckily so far here most people I've caught up with have noticed I've been behind them and pulled over for me 🙂 If not so far the etiquette seems to have been "passing on your left/right", or some guys just shout "rider!" which seems a bit rude 😆

Just recently, I've been going with "mind if I play through when you get the chance?" Then drop back a bit until that chance arises. Or if it's a sweet bit that I know well, I'll open as much gap as I can before setting off. If you do pass someone, make it count. Don't sit two feet in front of them, make sure you disappear. Trail centres don't do much in the way of passing places. I'm had to so "no rush" or "only when you can" to people who looked like they were trying too hard to let me through.
I've also explained to my other half that she only stops or moves over when it's safe for her. Don't try to kill yourself for the benefit of a total stranger trying to rip past.

I do it like this...

If it's a kid, you slow right down and let them choose when you should pass.

If it's somebody slow you shout "on your left of right" but only if it's not going to cause them any problems.

If it's somebody you know, you say nothing and pass like it's the final of the 4X complete with running commentary.

But i'm might just start using...

"elite rider passing on the right, sugartits!"

GW has it right TBH it's all fun and should be a chilled experience love that pass!!!!!

Don't forget that when it's wet, as the faster (Read BETTER, more ELITE) rider, it is your duty to put the bike into a drift through a puddle therefore showering the slower person with a sense of muddy fail which drenches them. They soon get the message and then take up chess instead.

What's the correct etiquette if you're riding round a trail centre the opposite way to everyone else and you keep meeting people head on ?
Pass on the left as if it was a normal road ?

What's the correct etiquette if you're riding round a trail centre the opposite way to everyone else and you keep meeting people head on ?

If you're going the wrong way, you should expect people to shout at you and call you an asshat.

That happens all the time anyway.

What's the correct etiquette if you're riding round a trail centre the opposite way to everyone else and you keep meeting people head on ?

You're probably following an MBR route guide.

Or a trailquest.

Avoid the problem by avoiding the hoards - dont go at the weekend.

Geez that pass is insane. You can kill people doing that!!
My king hubs make a nice squeal that people hear well before I get onto there tail.
I've found people just let me through and I've never had to ask people.

having the most fun ever passing folk at the mo. went with my kids to a canal towpath opening and got a cracking big silver bell FREE.. couple of tinkles on that and everybody pulls straight over thinking your some young kid or grandma until you glide past.. literally jaws have dropped.. apparently according to the nice lady that fastned the bell to my bike two tinkles is etiquette.

Although to be fair, he says that to everyone he passes.

True, true! 😛

Normally if there's another rider behind me they don't need to say anything, as I have a habit of flinging myself off the trail I hear something that even remotely sounds like another rider approaching. This can actually be incredibly inconvienient, as these sounds can include distant trees creaking in the wind, and the confusing "Crickets or Hope hubs?" condundrum.

"Crickets or Hope hubs?"

😯 You must have bloody big crickets round your way. Yikes!

atlaz - Member

I do it like this...

Canal paths and bells are another thread I think. I was wallking down the canal path in Chester yesterday when cyclist Nº1 came charing head on at me and clearly wasn't going to slow down, leaving me to jump out og his way. T**t!
Cyclist Nº2 came up behind me tingling away, and I thought it was someone on a barge doing something that bargey people do, and I didn't move out of the way. Sorry! 😳

At trail centres I only ever really pass strangers on climbs or the fire roads so just chat with them as I pass, on descents I wait for a big gap before I set off to get a clean run but if I do catch them I'll pull over until they've given me a big enough gap to go again (or sometimes I'll push back up for a full run again). it's not a race

Your flipping Jekyl & Hyde you are.

I usually utter something like 'Ermm can I possibly pop through when your ready' If I had a cap, I'd tip it.

HTFU, launch off the side of the trail, cut through the woods then gap jump onto the trail right infront of them. then shout 'on UR right

A not dissimilar thing happened to me and the Mrs doing the HONC a few years back. We were pootling down one of the wide, sunken stony descents and a chap passed by whizzing up the side and then launching off to land a few feet in front of me before belting away. I was quite impressed!

That video is mental

apparently according to the nice lady that fastned the bell to my bike two tinkles is etiquette.

Well, she might say that, but it's actually 'two tings'.

NO IT IS LOOK!

http://www.waterscape.com/canals-and-rivers/regents-canal/two-tings

See?

Ting an ting, innit?

Heh! And at BigBikeBash recently, a bloke behind me (on a cyclocross bike ffs) was extremely polite in asking me if I could let him pass when it was safe and convenient for me to do so. During a race. 😀

Whereas at Mayhem, some ****s just ride past you with no warning, giving you no room and causing danger for both of youse. No need for it. Even during a race, it's important to show consideration for others.

A bell helps in races, too. 🙂

I tend to sit on back wheel humming the tune to Airwolf as loud as possible - that often helps! if you can also get a mate to make helicopter noises then that's good too. . . . seems to unsettle folk.
🙂

Shout "rider" from a mile off, if they haven't stopped and got out your way, skid hard behind them with a more polite "excuse me".

I ride at degla quite often , problem I have peeps come up on my right and say something, but I'm deaf on my right side so don't really hear them, then they come past pissed off and give me abuse, I need a sign saying pass on my left, never really understand the need to come past at all costs, and i'm never going that slow, although i ride an orange 5 and they attract people to pass you 😀
I did have one guy kick off because i was blocking the trail he didn't notice the young lad splattered on the trail we had stopped to pickup when it was politely pointed out to him he still insisted we should keep the trail clear, at that point he was told to move on not so nicely.

never really understand the need to come past at all costs

although i ride an orange 5

I did have one guy kick off because i was blocking the trail

Your flipping Jekyl & Hyde you are.

Don't leave your bike in the middle of trail just round a blind corner while chatting to your mates, as I found one day on the 'freeerid section at Cwmcarn, the owner responce was 'how was I supposed to know a bike was going to be coming down there?' 😕 👿

'If you leave a gap,you want to be passed.If you don't leave a gap,you want to be passed but you hav'nt realized it yet.'

😀 Me and 2000 others on our 5's,

it is a problem having no hearing on one side, its hard to place where peeps are when I do hear them, perhaps I should get mirriors on my helmet 😀 can't ride any quicker i'm a bit fat slow old duffer..

Freeride area at llandegla my friend came down it only to find 4 blokes sat on the edge of the drop off along with all their bikes,
and told him to be more carefull 😯

You fancy a spin this arvo Mr M?Cruising as me ribs are brusin' (I'm a poet!)

would be nice Mr K , but I have arranged to meet with two 5 riders and have a trundle around Degla Mr and Mrs Smith.

I'm changing jobs at the end of the month onto shift so I will be available for some ubber rides in the day time, on your day off,

you can show me the trails I'm missing out on, may be on my 29er if I still have some dosh left to build one, need to buy a car.

We could invite the psuedo spic immigrant.....Don Simon 😀
If he's interested.....I will emither you at some point,promise.

Hehe sounds like fun, I will have to keep over to the right to let him past 😀

MidlandTrailquestsGraham - Member

What's the correct etiquette if you're riding round a trail centre the opposite way to everyone else

Stop doing it. Obviously.

We could invite the psuedo spic immigrant.....Don Simon
If he's interested.....I will emither you at some point,promise.