Originally Posted by
robertorolfo
Do you periodically look behind you to see who is approaching at a faster speed?
Absent an audible suggestion that someone is there, very few MUP users of any sort do while underway, unless they're trying to keep track of their group or still have a mirror attached for road segments.
Do you make way for those people?
Responding when someone indicates that they are there is the key part; that said moving over is not always the required response, for example if only a small part of the path at that point is safely traversable (and that part doesn't more rightfully belong to someone approaching in the opposite direction)
Too many variations in vehicle type will create significant difficulties in these situations... A random e-scooter or electric skateboard in an uncrowded area isn't a big deal, but put them in amongst a bunch of people on non-assist bikes and it makes a mess of things.
Adults on perfectly ordinary pedal bicycles go anywhere from 8 to 24 mph, probably a bit further to the ultimate outliers on each end, add hills and the spread gets wider still. But MUPs by their definition include people on foot too, at least except in sections where the path is split by use.
Or in the reference to pedal bikes were you criticizing the faster-than-bike segment of the e-toys? While you do occasionally see them going fast, most of those have reasonable speeds within or below the median bike range (at least once the user has experience a wipeout), it's really the electrified bike/motorcycle borderline cases that start falling into the alarming-to-others speed bracket.