oh absolutely. contrary to california's fairly weakly worded FRAP law, colorado's bike laws are about as strong as they can get.

Cyclists should still share the roads when safe to do so. Colorado and California both codify that with a FRAP requirement for bicyclists if the lane is wide enough to share, same as most other states. Colorado not california offers strongly worded affirmation to the cyclists use of the right hand lane when travelling slower than other traffic.

The colorado law may be the best US state law there is directing cyclists right to the travel lane. cyclists are still getting harassed by police and other officials in colorado. go figure.

What's really unfortunate is cyclists telling other cyclists the incorrect information about the laws, egregiously misleading with their unsafe interpretations.

can cyclists take the lane when there's no traffic in California? well, shucks, of course. same as with most states.