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My experience with canal/river towpaths is that pedestrians get pissed off when you use the bell, and pissed off when you say excuse me, and pissed off when you just wait for a gap and go round them. My method is to ring early, ride past slowly and then say thanks. Don't know if it helps though!
Exactly my method too. Only I have a beepy horn. I beeped before one of the bridges recently and heard a distant voice exclaim "It's a killer clown!"
Saying thanks almost always helps. I also tell peds 'I wasn't beeping at you!' if I find them under bridges.
General_Strike
My experience with canal/river towpaths is that pedestrians get pissed off when you use the bell, and pissed off when you say excuse me, and pissed off when you just wait for a gap and go round them. My method is to ring early, ride past slowly and then say thanks. Don't know if it helps though!