Pie, dammit, pie. You think making cakes is easy. 
I probably would have been fine if I had stepped. Where I fucked up was, I kept running and hit a rock wrong because I was moving somewhat sideways.
There have been plenty of times I’ve been slogging up a hill and actually been glad for the excuse to stop and step aside to let bikes by! But I was busy kicking ass yesterday, so.
Frustrated because I don’t like being hurt!
I’ll make you a deal.
You don’t yell at the mountain bikers that don’t yield to you on the mixed use trail, and I won’t yell at the pedestrians that walk 4 abreast on the bike only path when there is a fucking pedestrian path 10 feet away
Deal? 
How about people who stop to chat on the phone, then when they see you approaching, jump back on the trail so they’re just a few steps in front of you? Still talking on the phone, of course.
I run and mountain bike. When running, stay to the right. It only makes sense. When riding, yield to pedestrians. I usually try to yell out “on your left/right” as appropriate. Unfortunately, many people will move in the direction you call out, which defeats the purpose…
And if you’re riding a bike and coming up behind someone on horseback, please please PLEASE call out when you’re still a good distance/several seconds away so the rider can ready the horse for a large fast object to come whizzing out of its blind spot. The life you save may be your own.
I wonder if you called out “passing!” if they would instinctively move to their right. Unless they were English tourists, of course.
I’ve got a bell on my bike. I believe it bypasses the higher-order processing and language centers of the brain while still carrying the message that something is coming. And the higher pitch seems to cut through the background noise a bit.
There are still plenty of bipedal speed-bumps out there, but this works the best of anything I’ve tried.
Hell, I’d yell at those idiots, too!
Can’t say to the right on a single-track trail 
On a wider trail, it is always nice when riders will let me know they’re coming up. If they do I always look back and wave so that they know I’m aware of them.
Bell sometimes is worse…One time I was lost in my ‘meditation’, and heard a metallic sound. Wth? Looked down to see if I had kicked an old can or something. Nope. Hm. Heard it again. What IS that? No idea. How strange. Then the voice from behind ‘Hey, passya man??’. Did kinda feel like an idiot then.
Edit: Goddamn runners.
I always find that if I yell “No brakes! No brakes!” in a shrill and panicked voice, people politely get out of my bike path. It also works when walking.
Well, then, don’t get lost in your meditation.
I was doing my riding on paved, mixed-use trails to downtown Boston and back. I wasn’t on the street, but close enough that there was still traffic noise; and there were lots of people walking together and chatting. The bell just seemed like the best noise to stand out in that environment.
I had to deal with people walking six abreast, cutting in front of me, or playing their earbuds so loud they couldn’t hear me until I was practically next to them. One guy had his dog leash stretched all the way across the eight-foot-wide path and didn’t notice until I came to a full stop. A couple times a month there would be people standing on the path taking their wedding pictures. I’ll make them a deal; I won’t ride through their church, they don’t pose for pictures on the fucking bike path.
I just moved to a new apartment, near a different bike path. I hope the people here are a little more observant.
Traditionally, the smaller object-in-motion has right of way. I think it has something to do with boats. Horses get right of way because their brains are so tiny compared to their bulk.
Oh, yeah? A horse can take a dump while walking. Can you?
Never tried but I imagine I could manage it.
Hold on… Let me just-
Yes. 
That brings up a point I was pondering on a mixed use trail last week.
Dog owners are required by law to pick up their dog’s shit. Why are horse back riders allowed to let their animal leave steaming piles in the middle of the trail? Seems like should have to pick theirs up also.
This was not a fire road in the mountains, this was a paved mixed use trail in the middle of Orange County California.
Squaw Valley, CA.
Seems impractical for the rider as often as horses shit and with the rider having to dismount that often (and where to put all that poop…saddlebags?). Perhaps the state should enact a law where a horseback rider using mixed-use, paved trails has to hire a “poop boy” to follow along and clean up.
Squelch.
Pics, or it didn’t happen.
Sucks to be them. Here I am flying along at 19-20 mph on my road bike come around the corner and find a huge pile of horse shit right in my line.
Thanks asshole.
And if the horse back riders hired the pooper scooper, I would have no issue, but the city should not be paying to clean up after a citizen’s pet.