Thanks for all the great feedback folks. This road is a bit of a troublespot for me on my commute since it has stretches of very well maintained 3'+ wide shoulder for me to ride on and then sometimes I get nothing or close to nothing as shown in the video. This is compounded by the fact that this is a 45mph arterial with a good amount of industrial traffic on it.

Seems like lots of folks feel I need to take more of the lane and they are probably right, my concern is that I don't want to end up on the wrong end of a semi that isn't paying attention to me and my tiny bike. Here's what I mean, this is from literally a minute before the first video I posted:


This truck is doing about 45 and I'm doing about 20. I don't think there's any way I can feel safer taking more of the lane when I have stuff like that bearing down on me.

Speaking of shenanigans on this road, here's a clip from last week. Within the span of about 30 seconds I get one really cyclist aware and awesome driver who is overly cautious not to right hook me, then one that is so pissed about being slowed down that he puts his and multiple other people's lives in danger.


Needless to say I'm riding in my mirror for more than 50% of this stretch of road because of the likelihood for stuff getting weird behind me.