Originally Posted by
Bekologist
Steve,
YOU might think you states' 20-146 would allow a bicyclist to choose any position in a wide outside lane, but you and i both know that your state requires bicyclists and other slow moving vehicles to operate FRAP to facilitate passing.
unless you can cite a case law that affirms your mistaken interpretation of your smv-frap law as it applies to bicyclists, it does not withstand scrutiny.
nor does your assertion kive with standards of fair, vehicular road sharing.
My work with The Peloton Project to educate police and cyclists about courteous and legal road sharing is based on encouraging cyclists to ride to the right side of a marked lane when it is safe to do so on a voluntary basis, and encouraging police to give cyclists the leeway to decide for themselves when it is safe to do so, based on the lack of any legal mandate that they do so.
Most travel lanes here are narrow anyway, including the one in which I was operating when I was pulled, so your belief that cyclists must hug the curb on wide lanes has no relevance in my case anyway.