If it's bigger than you pull over and let the carts pass. Personally I think cyclists should NOT be allowed on the road or golf carts paths. Hey go to Ocala where there is alot of bike paths

big rush
 

The biggest problem i see is everyone seems to be in such a big rush is everyone afraid of missing happy hour

Tee times also.

That's pretty much true for the public in general... :icon_wink:

Or bike with care... Or walk with care...

But funny thing... In the year I've been here, I've had exactly ZERO problems on the MMPs, other than the lady who was exiting the MMP in her Prius onto Pinellas...

But that's a car problem...

Great... Now we have a North vs South contest going... :ohdear:

Oh, yes it is! DISEASE! PESTILENCE! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Please... Just stop it with your "common sense and logic"...

It has no place on these "entitlement" treads... :icon_wink:

Enlighten me as to how the above is not on the top of the list of the stupidest ever TOTV posts?

Well, since this is a golf cart community, that's not gonna' happen...

Most ear bud are not "noise cancelling". Unless their music/podcast/etc is cranked to death metal levels, they'll hear you...

Oh, wait... This is TV... They might not hear you even without the ear buds... :icon_wink:

Do-Do is #2...

Odd... I've never been to a happy hour in TV...

C'mon! You know there have been posts that have been much, much worse...:icon_wink:

Nice Bill Murry reference there!

Guess what? We can do both. Get used to it...or move.

Just because something is bigger doesn't give you ROW. Calm down...where are you going that requires a rush? Seriously???!!! Relax! If you need to get there so fast, drive a car. 😁

It would be helpful if bicycle riders had the courtesy to slide over over to the right when carts are behind them or ride on the street where there is far more room.

So true , they don’t stop at STOP signs, they don’t stop at traffic lights , or say stoped they run red lights, they run with traffic, I really don’t understand that rule, when I walk I face traffic, why don’t they??

Who’s the first?

My wife and I are longtime runners. We love to ride our mountain bikes as much as possible, instead of using our car or golf cart. Keeps us fit.

The rule has always been, walkers and runners face the traffic, bikes go with the traffic.
Some people here telling bikes to use the road instead the MMP is asinine.
Wtf do they think MM stands for?

When we did our lifestyle visit in Jan I ran on the mmp every morming near Brownwood. Everyone I encountered was courtious and many waved. It just takes a few self entitled douche bags to ruin the fun.

We just bought our home there to snowbird. Hopefully we can enjoy our bikes when we're there. Thankfully, we always have the Santos trailhead bike park not far way. We only have to worry about other bikes and hikers there. lol

Last week somebody posted that the bicycle clubs were advising their members to ride in the middle of the MMP's to stop carts from passing them. Has this been confirmed ?

Then you have bikes in the street...
:ohdear::ohdear:

If this is true, I'm not sure what their reasoning is. I can see doing that going thru a split lane since they can be tight for a cart and a bike. But normally I don't see why you would need to do that. Or I'm missing something.

Is that the same thing as AMBULANCE???
:clap2::clap2:

and to ride 3 deep side by side. to slow both lanes of travel Plus pick any of the 3 items below.
-play loud music with ear buds to calgon your fellow friends out the picture
-face time friends on speaker to be as obnoxious as possible(as shown on real housewives)
-have the largest bum in spandex - bakery at publix is wonderful for achieving this.
-tons of flashing lights

All cyclist approved as long as you have either a pink or green neon shirt which must be worn at all times outside of your undergarments

Hope this helps- just back from the club - they had wonderful bagels and cream cheese.

WHO DAT???
:shocked::shocked:

Yesterday i viewed a golf cart passing a biker going downhill to a tunnel with no way out for the on coming traffic.
There was 10 feet walls on bothsides.
The idiot almost hit head on coming traffic coming out of the tunnel, the oncoming traffic stopped short of the stop line and barely missed this idiot.
Twice I've seen this happen this week, now all the anti bike people try to justify this action.
I call it entitlement AHOLE Person!

Clearly a stupid move.

In what area did you see this happen in the last few days? In over two years I haven't seen this once so apparently I'm looking in the wrong place.

The purpose of riding in the center, two or three abreast is to 'take the lane'. Why would someone do this bike haters ask?

Taking the width of a cart forces all who want to pass to do so safely. "Sharing a lane" with a cyclist is not safe for the cyclist because given any unexpected action by the passing cart will instinctively cause the offending cart to veer right, into the cyclist.

As far as 'slowing down' a cart driver anything can slow a cart down, another cart, a loaded four person cart, walkers, dog walkers.

There is no reason any cart driver should lane share. Every cyclist should be passed by entering the opposite lane, regardless of the cyclists position in the lane. If there is not enough room to perform a proper pass then it is unsafe to do so.

Replace MMP with public road, carts for car and bicycle (ebike or bike) with motorcycle and you will know exactly what is expected of you.

St cats, chitty - basically everywhere south of 44

You put too many rodents in the barrel. They start biting.

Golf carts
 

I find that a few golf cart drivers think they are Gods and cut cars right off without looking. amazing there is not more accidents. Oh yeah Im super careful when in my golf cart.

I ride on the residential streets now. But about 5 years ago, I would ride on the MMPs. I never expected that I could count on golf cart drivers looking out for my best interests 100% of the time. So, I would turn my head or look in a bike mirror to see the golf cars that were coming up behind me. Then I would stop the bike and move to about 1 foot on the grass. I tend to have a lot of respect for animals, golf carts, and other vehicles that are bigger than me. When I am driving a car I like to respect bikes, walkers, and golf carts. When I was younger and living out in the western US, I would ride a mountain bike. And I would ride on trails or areas where there were no others around. I would enjoy the quiet and nature and the exercise, of course.
That is just basically my attitude. I am retired now, so I don't normally need to be anywhere in a hurry. Bikers riding in the middle of an MMP lane and DARING golf cart drivers to pass them seem unrealistic and belligerent to me. And golf cart drivers wanting to PUSH the bikers off of their self-proclaimed MMP seem DANGEROUSLY belligerent to me. If a friend told me that they drove their golf cart like that just to save some time and take out their aggressions, I would cease to associate with them! That's my opinion.

People on ToTV...

Admit it, you made this up...

No one can find any cream cheese... :1rotfl:

So you're the one...

This happened to a friend and me a few years ago as we were bicycling down the long tunnel entrance on the multimodal path on Morse Boulevard north of Soaring Eagle. There are very high cement walls on both sides. I was behind my friend when a golf carter passed us going down the entrance ramp, I yelled at my friend to watch out as I knew if another golf cart came out of the tunnel this crazy cart driver would save herself by taking out my friend. Too much! There was no where for anyone to go if a cart had come out of the tunnel. The cart driver just got by my friend at the entrance to the actual tunnel. If my buddy hadn’t slowed down the cart would have hit him. Extremely reckless, almost unbelievable behavior. Some people do not like to slow down and see walkers and bicyclists as nuisances and speed up to pass them no matter how dangerous the situation with total disregard for their safety.

Tunnel by sumterlanding off bunea vista blvd

You can't fix stupid.
Someone told me one day this is a golf community and the golfers RULE.
Hmmmm i wonder if this is where the bad behavior comes from.
One day Karma will visit them and it won't be pretty. Alot of NY bikers here that won't put up with that reckless behavior!
HMMMMM could be that reckless behavior come from NJ and NYers but i dont know if thats true, they do have respect for each other i hope?
Past post said NJ/NYers behave badly, HMMMMMM wonder why they think that?