Originally Posted by
genec
The difference is that strict vehicular cyclists abhor shoulders and bike lanes... While you may ride on the streets, your use of shoulders and bike lanes is counter to the thinking of those that consider themselves "vehicular cyclists" and who generally tout full lane use on all but the very widest streets, and decry the use of shoulders or any other non travel lane use such as segregated facilities for cyclists.
Your view of how you ride is not considered "vehicular" by the VC folks... may cyclists ride the way you do and it has been called "adaptive cycling" by many here.
This is a false description of vehicular cycling invented for the purpose of denigrating it. Equally false is the other description, also frequently used in these discussions, of vehicular cycling as curb-hugging, also invented for the purpose of denigrating vehicular cycling. I think that, to an outside observer, the creation of this Vehicular Cycling forum was intended to denigrate vehicular cycling for the purpose of proclaiming the superiority of bikeways in attracting new cyclists.