Originally Posted by
Bike Hermit
I read some pundit's advice which said (paraphrased here): Act unpredictable; swerve a little bit when you know a car is approaching behind you at a respectable distance. I am always amazed by how much room they give me when I do this.
The safety wobble/swerve is an incredibly useful basic urban riding skill. It can also help prevent right and left crosses by helping drivers "see" a cyclist. Its one of the many basic urban cycling skills that VC bike education (e.g. cycling savvy, lab) ignores for ideological reasons. Decades of riding in traffic has taught me that riding predictably and in a straight line is not always safer.