[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by Advogado

Your are not silly. As a sometime cyclist, my advice to you is: Be careful. Be very very careful. A significant number of the golf cart drivers forget that the path is multimodal and do not give cyclists a safe amount of room.

The most dangerous sections are the traffic islands where the path splits into separate lanes. The single lane is not wide enough for a golf cart to safely pass a cyclist, so you have to seize the lane by riding in the middle, otherwise, you almost certainly will get passed. If you happen to accidentally veer or fall at that point, you are dead or badly hurt. (Of course, if you are approaching a single lane, you want to waive by you any carts that are coming up behind you so that you don't unnecessarily hold them up.)

This is also excellent advice. As a cyclist and a golf cart driver, I get very frustrated when someone on a bicycle refuses to allow me to pass. When I am on my bike and a golf cart comes up behind me, I move over and wave them through. Of course this can't be done everywhere, but I'll wave them on as soon as it is safe to do so.
It's a lot like people who want to drive slower than the rest of the traffic in the left hand lane.