(Rant: Begin) I should expect no less.
As it is the driving culture here in South Florida can kindly be described as Entitled. Between impaired driving, overly powered exotic cars, and the usual people driving Metric Speeds with Canadian license plates, the roads are a bit "Darwinian" here.
A note: The Universal Vehicle Code is in force here as well as where you came from, the rules don't change, that is why it is Universal.
So take those same entitled people and put them on a workout trail that is a mere 2 meters or 6 feet wide, approximately, and it's tight.
Now, with the advent of Cheap, Ok, Semi-Inexpensive Electrically powered Bicycles, and I'm just waiting for the hive mind to devolve to the stupid lowest denometer.
I'm an intermediate Cyclist, maintaining an average above 13 Miles Per Hour. Lets call it 22 KPH on average. My speed varies widely because I have a broad chest. Coming around a turn that I have just slowed down to average from 20 since the wind was at my back to about 9 or 10 when the wind is now pushing at my front means a reduction of control.
If Karen is in the wrong side of that narrow trail, the nicest thing I can say is "WRONG SIDE" as I pass. Usually it's followed by something that "Red Forman" would repeat. "DUMBAZZ"
Mind you, intermediate is fair. The top end people on that trail are going closer to another 50% faster on their carbon fiber bikes and will end up saying worse as they collide with Karen, or nearly so.
When I skate on that same trail, the numbers are lower even though I am an elite speed skater, it's just a matter of physics and a lack of gears on a 100 MM inline skate wheel.
That E-Bike thing? I have seen a pack of elite carbon fiber bikes wearing all that weird stinky spandex stuff get passed at another 25 to 50% of speed that would lead me to believe that the electricity has that person hauling at a speed of 25 MPH or better.
If he collides with Karen, she's going to end up injured pretty severely.
Entitled or not, Keep Right Except To Pass.
It isn't the exerciser's fault you're in the wrong lane with your two Yorkshire Terriers in a child's stroller that are yapping away. Sure, he's going too fast, but that doesn't matter, clear your sorry self off the trails.
What amount of exercise you get on an E-Bike is debatable, even at 25 MPH. If you can go that fast, it's more like a motorcycle anyway.
Oh well, too early for that crap, right? May as well finish off the second mug of coffee. (Rant: End)
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