Originally Posted by
up on two
This is the reason why I prefer riding trails over roads but this woman seems to have a death wish. While she might be legal to ride the center of the right lane, that doesn't mean she should. She is not only endangering herself but everyone that is sharing the road with her!
When you see cars and semi trucks passing her on the right shoulder, that tells me it is plenty wide enough for a bicycle and that is where she should be riding. I imagine there will be some debris from time to time but it does look like there is enough room to ride around it.
In short, whether she is in the right or not, she has made herself a public nuisance and should adjust her route, lane and attitude. It's people like her that give all cyclist a bad public image. I know others feel differently and that is great too. I'm just expressing my thoughts on the information provided.
Motorist ---- > is three doors down and to the left.
She is still alive and well, so that, more than anything else, indicates her choices on the bicycle were correct, regardless of your lazy armchair assessment.
How exactly, absent actually colliding with pedestrian, does a person on a bicycle endanger anyone?
1) A car and a truck have different tires than does a bicycle and are not as likely to get flats;
B) Remaining consistent in one's approach to cycling, for that day's ride, and future day in and day out, conditions others to and adds to predictability.
III) Edit to remove insult.