Originally Posted by krispistoferson
I may have misconstrued you as a "sidewalks Only" type of guy, and you in turn mistook me for a VC hardliner. You can't be all bad, since, like me, you use quotation marks a lot. I think it's exceptable in rare instances to go on the sidewalk, but if most of your riding is on them, you've got problems.
True, and the "problem" could be that a rational cyclist would view the alternative to the sidewalk, at certain places and times, as a worse choice than the sidewalk.
Not all cyclists place the same emphasis on maximizing speed or choosing cycling technique IAW theoretical guesswork.