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Old 10-19-11 | 06:10 PM
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Bikes: the ever shifting stable loaded with comfortable road bikes and city and winter bikes

oh, so you pull right when its safe to facilitate a pass? surely you're not talking vacating the roadway for traffic, are you? you mean you pull to the right of the roadway, right?

then why bust my chops, cowboy?

but you're not that familiar with some traffic conditions riders might face that might behoove a rider to share two lane high speed roads, even if they think the lane is 'too narrow to share entirely within the lane' with the car, eh?



digital cowboy continues to obtusely ignore the reasonable person standard explicit in the florida law allowing a rider to take the lane, when reasonably necessary, in a lane he thinks is too narrow to share.

reasonable standards pervade traffic law.

operating unwaveringly to the left of a rural two lane highway because the bicyclist believes they have no obligation to 'share the lane' in the face of traffic wanting to pass?

neither legal nor courteous for bicyclists in most states. and yes, the new safe passing laws being passed in some states allow motorists to cross solid double yellow lines to pass bicyclists.

send in more of those singing wahines.

Drivers are not fond of bicyclists needlessly impeding traffic. Sometimes, groups of cyclists operating with mistaken impressions about traffic law can drive not just bad feelings but actual legislative censure. the florida nightmare. riders, beware.

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