Originally Posted by
pacificaslim
IYour positioning is what made cars impatient with you. They wouldn't have been impatient waiting behind, say, a big truck at that light because they would look at the situation and realize that there isn't anything the truck could do to make the situation any better. It's the same reason people don't get mad at delivery vehicles, someone parallel parking, etc. But they look at you and go, "if that jackass would just move over a little...i could get on my way," and get impatient and since you didn't give them room to go by you on the right, they went by on the left. In other words, there was something you could do to improve the situation but you chose not to. That frustrates people. Don't be like that.
If moving over puts me at greater risk then no, I'm not going to do it. If it doesn't put me at greater risk, then I'll have done it already.
A lot of motorists think that bicyclists can move out of the way when in fact they cannot do so safely.