There just isn't a large body of evidence showing that this is in fact how any cyclists are killed or injured. Just about all of you drive. How many times have you tried to pass something when "there wasn't enough room"? What you really mean to say is: "What if you get taken out because there was room enough to pass when they started to overtake but you choked and left your line and got whacked with a rear-view mirror." At least twice on the morning commute on the back-roads I am passed in a way that makes my blood pressure spike. Where you think... sheesh... if I had bobbled just a little bit when that @#$@%$ was blasting by... ... but then I realize... anyone who would pass a cyclist that is on the fog strip like that would have been even more discourteous if they had actually been forced into oncoming traffic. And don't think they wouldn't. The really big trucks around here always pull fully into the oncoming traffic lane when they pass a cyclist. Must be the law or something. Thing is they do it even when the double yellow is solid on their side! They would never try to pass a car like that but they imagine they can get around a cyclist and back in the lane.... my level ground speed is usually around 18mph.... they probably think its 8mph! I don't personally want to be responsible for a 45mph head on collision before breakfast. So I work on keeping my line and maintaining my road speed under duress. Works for me.

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