It takes practice to become courteous.

A good place to practice this is the MUP in Long Beach along the shoreline over the weekend. At 2nd Street, to Bayshore Avenue and then begins the MUP which takes you through a heavily traveled route for all kinds of people. There's just more variety than the Huntington Beach MUP. I estimate about 5 miles and it will take you to the Los Angeles River bike trail. On this MUP there are times that you can go 20 mph and then there are times that you really have to slow down and be on the watch. This is a good path for the urban rider. Besides, you get the L.A. River to Rio Hondo path to open up and ride for many miles.

I usually park a ways before that near PCH and Studebaker Road behind Mimi's Cafe near the Seal Beach Yacht Club. There's a public bathroom nearby the Schooner or Later restaurant. Lots of riders park near that inner parking lot near the Seal Beach Yacht Club.

You have to see yourself as just part of the society that you live in. Being courteous is a virtue and virtues need to be practiced before it becomes a habit...and then a lifestyle for a destiny.