Originally Posted by
BlazingPedals
Not true. If a driver sees you hugging the fog line, then as the car gets nearer you pull out and take the lane, that's viewed as deliberately blocking the car. It doesn't matter if the lane is wide enough to share or not, the driver only sees that you've moved over to take the whole lane to your (narrow) self.
But I maintain that the driver will have the same low opinion of you regardless of when you decide to take the lane. He/she will see you as a road hog and impediment to traffic whether done 200 feet in front of them or if they come on you already in that position. I suppose they might take it more personally if they see you do it, but a case could also be made that riding in the middle of the lane all the time will give them more time to decide exactly what method they want to use to disabuse us of our obviously misguided notion that we belong on the road in the first place.