nothing of the sort. I'm not 'prating' any great advantage, I'm discussing clear directives in traffic law. Posting personal disparagement about supposed - and unfounded - 'cyclist inferiority' advocacy is offensive, and against forum guidelines.
If readers need an example of actual cyclist inferiority, how about this quote?
""NEVER ride at the center of a high speed lane unless you are moving at the speed of traffic -always ride at one edge or the other, to give cars room to pass you."
- the advice of an cyclist that doesn't want to get in the way of traffic!
Arkansas clearly dictates an overtaken vehicle
'give way to the right in favor of the overtaking vehicle.'
There is nothing in Arkansas traffic law that indicates if overtaking cannot be done without straddling the line, overtaking vehicles are not required to give way to the right. that supposition is fantasy and artifice, and runs counter to uniform expectations of slowly driven vehicles, in all states.
Arkansas traffic instruction to operators of slowly driven vehicles is unequivocal and clearly requires a person riding a bicycle to 'give way to the right', safely, in favor of the overtaking. This is a fairly uniform standard across state lines, regardless of each states' specific wording regulating operating to the right when driving slower than other traffic. Some states do regulate bikes preferentially, however, and allow bicyclists to control substandard width lanes for safety.
Arkansas has no such allowances for bicyclists, grouping bike traffic with other road users, and requires road users 'give way to the right' without regard for 'straddle overtaking' or substandard width lanes.
ONLY states that preferentially treat bike traffic in their traffic laws allow those types of exceptions.