Old 10-15-15 | 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
Is that what "bicycle driving means? No cycling infrastructure, no restrictions on driving, complete dependence on "sharing the road"? Any reference for this definition of this seldom used stilted awkward phrase? Does that mean no cyclist can practice "bicycle driving" in the vicinity of cycling infrastructure?
No, that is not what "bicycle driving" means... and you know it. Bicycle driving is a coined phrase for vehicular cycling... and vehicular cycling is riding a bike in a manner as one might drive a car... or really, more accurately, a slow motorcycle... in traffic and with traffic... perhaps best described as "acting and being treated as the driver of a vehicle."

The items I mentioned: "cycling infrastructure, restrictions on driving, and not depending on sharing the road" are items that are typically done to improve cycling modal share, and thus are not part of the purist definitions of vehicular cycling... the latter, which requires none of those things I mentioned.

BTW I am not sure who coined the phrase "bicycle driving." I seem to remember that it came here with Helmet Head... but I don't know where he got it.
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