Originally Posted by
JoeyBike
Thank you!
And big trucks can't easily change lanes in slow moving gridlock either. If there is enough room for a truck to move into the next lane "through" me, then there should enough room for me to move over too.
The added danger of course are the big exposed wheels on trucks. It is almost impossible for a cyclist to get actually run over from the side by a passenger car drifting over the line but highly likely an unaware cyclist could end up under the wheels of a big truck very quickly from the side. I am presuming this is the fear (justified) for lane splitting past a moving truck.
Yes. One time I was passing a stopped city bus, properly, not lane splitting, when the driver started to gun it out of the bus stop lane, intending to merge back into traffic. It was not going to be a problem to accelerate a bit and finish passing it and let it come in behind me, and that's when I discovered that this used road bike had a worn out freewheel that liked to skip and slip. It went ka-chunk and my foot came off the pedal and I swerved around, recovered, braked, and dropped in behind the bus. Almost ate it right next to that bus, and I was looking at those wheels rolling right by my face. That sure got the old heart going.