Trail ettiquette – going up instead of down – Page 3 – Bike Forum

sofabear · 2015-11-12T20:31:30Z

Was out for a couple of hours in the Surrey Hills today. On my way down one of the trails (Barry Knows Best for those who know it) I was met with a recumbent rider going [b]up[/b] the trail. The trails here are on private land so no specific directional arrows or anything like that and his point of view is that the trails are for all to use in any direction they choose. I suspect he may be right but I couldn't help think it was a bit of a stupid point of view as 99.9% of the directional flow is down the hill and law of big numbers suggests he will at some point meet a rider coming round one of the hairpins at some stage. It was a friendly convo, I only stopped out of politeness and curiosity for his trike (I was hoping he would offer a shot on it but no :( ), I wasn't going to mention about him going the "wrong way". It's no biggie really, lots of riders walk back up these trails when they are sessioning but I guess they're on bikes and can easily get out of your way whereas this guy's trike was as wide as the trail itself.

Marin

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On your too argumentative for me. I still stop for peeps coming down so there!

Posted : 16/11/2015 8:12 pm

mrmo

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And threads like this remind me why i have developed the opinion that most mtbers are cocks

Posted : 16/11/2015 8:31 pm

STATO

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On your too argumentative for me. I still stop for peeps coming down so there!

and thats fine, almost karma since you would like others to do the same, but do you also stop for peeps coming up?

Posted : 16/11/2015 8:35 pm

dovebiker

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I was over Hurtwood yesterday and suspect I saw the guy on the recumbent trike - it's one of these:
http://www.icetrikes.co/community/ice-news/ice-full-fat-26fs#

Based on the first thing pedalled (not pushed) to the South Pole, so don't think BKB would present too many challenges, except the steep bit at the top!

Posted : 16/11/2015 9:32 pm

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