Originally Posted by
randya
what 'proper cycling' is, is all in the mind of the beholder.
anyway, it turns out that it's not so easy to convince motorists to give up the comfort and convenience of their cars and trucks for bicycles, you have to get them to give up their cars and trucks for public transit first, as public transit riders are the ripest for conversion to cycling.
So, proper cycling is all a matter of opinion. I consider proper cycling to be obeying the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles. Do you consider that proper cycling is disobeying those rules of the road? Then you have a different opinion of the meaning of proper than is usual. Do you consider proper cycling to be what the militant motorists desire, incompetent cycling on bikeways? Their opinion is undoubtedly popular, but popular and proper have, in most dictionaries, rather different meanings.