I ride both a bike and drive a cart daily. In eleven years here I have never encountered a rude biker like described here. But I have encountered many many rude Cart drivers. These wanna be high school hot toddlers have their carts tuned to 35 mph. They pass you on blind corners and at tunnels where there is no sight distance. Doesn’t matter if you are in a cart or on a bike. They pass on the blind corners going into intersections so they can be ahead of you sitting at the stop sign. I now avoid the path between Evans Praire and Pinnelas because so many carts have passed or tried to pass into the dip where the tunnel is. There is no sight distance and they can’t see if an oncoming cart is in the dip. In addition a cart can enter the path from the tunnel or Kiideer golf course and you can’t see them. On the blind corners going into intersection I have been passed where the offending cart runs both me into the bushes and the oncoming cart off the trail. Not long ago in my cart I was passed on a blind corner by an old fool going who knows how fast as I was driving as fast as was comfortable given the corner. Had there been an oncoming cart this nimrod would have likely had a head on or swerved back into my lane and caused a wreck in that way. Slow down, it’s a multimodal path, be courteous, hey we’re retired. Being a user of both bike and cart bikes don’t bother or scare me but many cart drivers do. Many are extremely inconsiderate.
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