Originally Posted by
PatrickGSR94
The point of CS is not to shun all bicycle infrastructure, though poorly-designed and dangerous infra is definitely shunned.
My comment addressed "i am traffic", not cycling savvy. Taking the lane on a 55 mph road is something that not even 1% of the bike commuting public would do but a while ago you linked to a CS video that illustrated a cyclist doing this. I will always defend someone's "right" to ride in the lane (see Cherokee Schill thread) but taking the lane in this context is a worst case scenario and the epitome of high risk. For the vast majority of cyclists, sidewalks and "copenhagen-style crossings" will always be preferable to lane-taking on congested high-speed roads.
My town has nothing at all, zilch.
Memphis has quite a bit of infrastructure:
https://bikepedmemphis.files.wordpre...phis_24x24.pdf
But using CS techniques I can still get to pretty much anywhere in town by bike
Using my "pretend I am Lucas Brunelle" techniques I can also get to pretty much anywhere in any town. Come to think of it maybe I should post some educational videos depicting the safety advantages of slicing through a gap and splitting the center lane at 25.