Originally Posted by
Bekologist
personally, i take the lane a lot and do not hesitate to claim the lane when needed for safety.
Off to jail with you then. You can celebrate your own conviction for failing to pay due regard to the safety of others if a couple of motorists decide that the nut with the Xmas-tree freshener waving at them was an irritant.
Originally Posted by
Bekologist
There's a reasonable way to ride, and there's a way to ride with reckless disregard for others - the difference should be crystalline to all of us accustomed to road cycling in a wise variety of conditions.
And this is apparently determined not according to any clear metric, but the whims of other road users. Is that _really_ what you want to push for?