Originally Posted by
Bekologist
Good grief, claims a technical writer can misinterpret their own writing, and then deny it?
What is this, comedy hour at the asylum?
Still waiting for the video of this alternate technique of unwaveringly riding 55 mph narrow laned state highways square in the lane or left tire track, because its inconsequential and irrelevant to passing traffic, and how well that's been working out for john, or sgoodri, or any of the rest of the proponents of this riding method, er, dogma.
The only riders I'm familiar of that have blogged they ride in this manner have gotten repeatedly arrested and now convicted of reckless operation of their bicycle. And these riders are a rarity approaching the level of an abominable snowman. The duplicitous yeti of the bicycling world.
I smell the worlds largest smokescreen getting rained on - what internet bluffery.
You won't see that video because those that say to take that lane for an entire ride would actually have to stake their lives on it beyond a post & debate in this thread. Now I'm not challenging anyone to do anything they wouldn't normally do. Anyone can ride a few hundred feet out there when there's no traffic. Just me, I wouldn't feel any nor much safer even where your video puts a cyclist on a 55 mph highway. To me, it's whether one feels safer with the possibility of being sideswiped &/or run over from behind (taking the lane) vs maybe just being sideswiped &/or run over from behind (FRAP) ? The worst case scenarios, I guess a cyclist is just as crippled or dead and just as dangerous. I'd rather ride an atb/mtb and stay on the gravel, if riding alongside that road for any longer commute, if that is what I absolutely had to do. Yeah, I'm a coward that way, but even on the road, I'd ride the atb/mtb and stay close enough to the gravel so that if I were forced off the road for whatever reason involving close proximity with a motor vehicle, or bailed off the asphalt voluntarily because of being skiddish about being out on the asphalt, at least the bike I was riding would be able to handle that terrain and was the right choice of equipment for that decision.