The cyclist is dead right.
Nobody's saying that the cyclist broke the law. What I said was that you could not pay me enough money to do what the cyclist did because I know how difficult it is to see around a large truck, so I feel that any cyclist that intentionally stays to the right of a large truck had better be ready to move extremely fast if the truck starts to turn right.
I think a lot of people do not understand how far the rear tires on a long truck track over when they're turning. The rear tires can easily roll over a track 5 or 6 feet to the right of the front wheels when they're turning right. That puts the rear tires right over the top of most bike lanes. If you're to the right of a truck and it's turning right, you had better move somewhere else instantly. You're not wrong, but you're about to be dead.
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