Originally Posted by
400E
So my current pet peeve when on my MUP is the occasional rider, usually a male teenager, riding towards me whom I notice as he passes that he's riding hands-off. I reflexively yell something like "Hands on the bars!" as I pass since I think it's pretty rude to ride in the vicinity of another human (pedestrian or cyclist) without full control of the bicycle. All it would take is the front wheel hitting a piece of tree branch on the trail to send that cyclist flying, and there would be a good chance he'd collide with anyone nearby.
Wondering what others think about this?
Personally, I regard operating in a manner that puts others at risk as d***head behavior. But I have never found a way to call somebody on it that doesn't seem like escalation. As my granddad used to say, "Before you get down in the mud to wrestle with a pig, remember, the pig lives there."