Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Does that mean a bicyclist should do all that because some guy in a following car got uncomfortable, wouldn't pass and posts all about it on BF?
How about if your coworkers, neighbors and/or family are "uncomfortable" with your bicycling in traffic? Does that mean you need to adapt to their expectations of safe bicycling?
Lets' take just 'adapting to safe cycling', and put it in its' own context. Now is what I recommended tantamount to 'shriveling up like body parts that have been in the water a long time', no. At the same time, they further safe cycling, while not implying the cyclist should, ride in the gutter or get off the road.
Now lets' take the opinions of family, friends, co-workers(and motorists') making judgments' as to what they see as safe cycling. I used to get that all the time from my parents'. They finally backed off when, they started trusting me, that I knew what I was doing.