Originally Posted by
Nutfarmer
I take the lane to avoid being pushed into oncoming traffic. My experience has been that if I leave room on the inside, motorists will push me out of the lane.
This does not make sense. In North America traffic flows on the right. If you are pushed to the right by an impatient left turner cutting inside your arc, you would not, could not, wind up facing oncoming traffic. I'd think you'd have more trouble making it leftward across two traffic lanes to the first of the left turn lanes in the first place! That you can do that, means the car/bike culture in your area isn't all that awful. Given that, making the widest turn you possibly could would absolutely prevent a pass on the outside, and if someone passed on the inside, so what? FWIW.
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