What is the accepted rider etiquette?
When you are racing you can get extremely focussed and single-minded which unfortunately may mean that you can only think of one thing – your race. The fact is that you are also racing with many other people in your class, in a different (age or skill wise) race class and thus be better than you are or you are also riding with others who are less skilled than you are. In all these cases it is important to know how you should react if you catch someone or someone catches you on the race course. If you struggle with a climb or a downhill and you have to get off please clear the trail straight away so that riders behind you can keep going. If someone in front of you cant get out of the way quickly enough be patient and polite and wait till the rider in front can safely move aside and allow you to pass. Remember that this is probably how you would like to be dealt with if you are caught up. If you are catch-up or you are caught-up the rider behind will call “track left (or right)” to indic
