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Old 09-15-10 | 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by JeremyLC
I'm not the only one the trail, I saw, at least, a half dozen other rides going just as fast on the same trail. It is expected that there are fast moving bikes. It is NOT expected that people will be walking and riding the wrong way down the trail. I generally slow down around other trail users, too. These folks didn't do ANYTHING to mitigate, they just stopped and stared at me.
This is the root of the problem, people do boneheaded and thoughtless things more often than not. If there was another cyclist approaching from the opposite direction at your speed, things could have been much worse.
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