Originally Posted by
mrodgers
Though riding very rural as I said, rarely do I encounter a situation where a car behind me wants to pass with another car coming the opposite way.
I don't get all the control the lane stuff either. I'm doing like 10-15 mph while traffic is doing 45. Why would I want to be out in the middle of the road with that coming up behind me?
Lucky you. I don't mean that in a snarky way either, I genuinely envy your situation.
I'm in a weird area. I'm just at the very edge of one of the biggest cities in the USA, but my area filters into a bunch of rural areas on the other side of the city. I get a TON of traffic from people commuting outside of the city into it, plus a lot of local traffic.
This is what every single day of my life is like as a bike commuter where I live: