Originally Posted by Velo Vol

I don't know about coasting but I almost did bite it on the MUP a few weeks ago.

It was past dusk and I came around a corner that was even more shaded from the ambient light.

All of a sudden I see two guys pushing bikes in front of me. I wasn't going at full speed, but fast enough (15-6 mph?) that I didn't have any time to go around them. I applied the brakes and yelled out "sorry"--fully expecting to hit something.

Somehow I threaded the needle and went between them without hitting anything. I would love to see a video replay of that maneuver. At any rate it scared the crap out of at least one of them (based on his yell).

I suppose the decent thing would have been to stop and apologize to them. But the whole incident was such a big facepalm that I kept on going and avoided the embarrassment and/or possible confrontation.