Originally Posted by
Pscyclepath
I've done it on the arterials, but it's certainly no fun at all. It's much easier on my nerves and life expectancy to find a parallel, less-traveled street, or take the long way around.
There may not be "a long way around." Quite often here in the west you may be on the only road that goes from A to B and it may just be a 55 or 65MPH arterial... if you are lucky, it may have a bike lane. But BL do not preclude you from right hooks.
Originally Posted by
Pscyclepath
If there's a lesson to be learned from this fellow's death, it's that passing on the right and getting into the "no-zone" of a large vehicle is really, really bad juju.
Tom
How about the flip side, where the vehicle passes the cyclist and then cuts him off... Who's bad juju is that?