Yeah, so I'm going to say this squarely falls in the "don't be an ass" category. Make yourself known, wait for the acknowledgement, pass at a reasonable speed.

Yeah, so I'm going to say this squarely falls in the "don't be an ass" category. Make yourself known, wait for the acknowledgement, pass at a reasonable speed. If you can't do that then wait for 20 seconds. It's not hard. I'm also going to say that "it's vastly safer" is nonsense your brain made up to self-justify your crummy behaviour. It's a footpath. For pedestrians. To walk. I don't mind if people use it for other things, within reason, but not with this attitude. And look, people misjudge these sort of things all the time. I've almost certainly done that myself on occasion. It happens. But when you intentionally do it, and try to justify it ... it should be obvious I'm not especially impressed by that.