Originally Posted by
dwightonabike
I'm at a loss as to what I should have done differently.
I had slowed way down in order to pass safely. Families don't really like people blasting by their inexperience children.
No passing at all while on a MUP? With the turns and hills, I would not be able to safely pass a group that size and speed, while accounting for riders coming the other way at 20mph. Not sure that's how MUPs are intended to be used.
Indeed, there are plenty of selfish individuals here as well who use the MUPs as their own personal time-trial courses. Add joggers, pedestrians walking 4 abreast, children on bikes wobbling erratically over the entire width of the path, and dogs on 30 foot leashes, and you have a recipe for disaster. But I guess that is why they call it a MULTI-USE path. That is why I choose to ride on the road most of the time. It's much safer, more orderly and predictable, and I can average 15 - 20 mph vs. 8 - 10 mph (if I'm lucky) on the MUP.