Passing on cycle tracks and paths

[Pauluk]

When meeting on coming cyclists on cycle paths, tracks, towpaths etc I tend to pass them on the side that seems best for them. For example, if they are to the right I tend to move to my right and pass them on their left side and I tend to move over early so they don't have to change their position.

Is there some unwritten rule or cycling etiquette that says cyclists should pass each other on a specific side, should each cyclist stick to the left of the path or is it just up to people to use common sense and courtesy.

 

[MrJamie]

Some of them have a sign or webpage that says cycle on the left, walk on the right side (like a road)etc, but in reality so few stick to it that common sense is safer imho.

 

[calibanzwei]

Like the roads, I stick to the left unless there's markings advising otherwise (shared usage path for example).

 

[ohnovino]

I stick to the left unless there's a good reason not to.

 

[Bman]

iI keep left. Thats what we do in this Country.

If someone is coming towards me on my side of the path, I stop, on the left.

You know that "dance" that pedestrians sometimes do as they both try and move out of the way of each other? Welll, I dont want that happening to me and another cyclist while we are travelling towards each other...

 

[calibanzwei]

You know that "dance" that pedestrians sometimes do as they both try and move out of the way of each other? Welll, I dont want that happening to me and another cyclist while we are travelling towards each other...

Ah... the 'Dance'. Done with a pretty girl... joke about letting her lead next time...getting her number. Not that I'm boasting

 

[G-Zero]

iI keep left. Thats what we do in this Country.

If someone is coming towards me on my side of the path, I stop, on the left.

You know that "dance" that pedestrians sometimes do as they both try and move out of the way of each other? Welll, I dont want that happening to me and another cyclist while we are travelling towards each other...

+1

 

[redcard]

I just tear right down the middle and anything in the way gets destroyed.

Kidding, stick to the left.

 

[growingvegetables]

up to people to use common sense and courtesy.

+ 1
And if they ain't on the left, they've forgotten "common sense and courtesy"

 

[totallyfixed]

All very well, and I agree, keep left...............however, after I moved to Cambridge some years ago the "dance" on the cycle paths got another name, "chicken" or who blinks first and I soon came to realise that far eastern students who believe that keeping right is , er right don't blink much. I think it was around that time I stopped using cycle paths, felt much safer on the road.

 

[Maylian]

Don't know of many cycle paths in my area but the shared use paths I stick left when pedestrians permit and if momentum makes it easier for all involved.