I find a lot of joggers have headphones (normally in-ear ones) playing something so are oblivious to other road users (and can also represent a hazard to other road users as they jog on across junctions as though there was nobody/no vehicles else within 3 miles).
So bell/shout.scream at such joggers and you are wasting your breath, best you can do is try and avoid a collision as they enjoy exclusive use of the road.
(nb only applies to the highish proportion of joggers using headphones/ear-pods, not any anti-jogger rant as I do strongly believe the roads are for everybody and sharing is generally not hard)
Ian
Not just joggers
I have this problem quite often with walkers - some with dogs
ride along path behind them
see them so slow down
ring bell (it is quite loud)
no reaction so slow down more and ring bell again
no reaction
see ear thingies so try ringing again - now quite close
they might hear at that point
if not shout "Execuse me"
at which point some move over and say sorry
most look like I have done something wrong and move over
This is a worse problem in winter as the sides of the paths are too wet to just ride round them on the grass - it would leave deep ruts and wreck the place if a lot of people did it
but "some people" still seem to expect this
or I ride around them and they react as if I was on a super loud scrambler bike doing 90!!!!
OK OK - the vast majority of people are really nice - and most of the ear-phone type people are also nice and apologise if I have had to stop
but you know how it is - you remember the idiots who behave badly and act like the faults of the world are your fault!!!!
(still remember the woman who actually screamed and clutched her husband's arm in "terror" when they ignored my bell twice so I rode around them on the grass (it was summer) with 10 yards of clearance!!!!
For those also reading another thread - one yard is about 6 hedgehogs!)
