Originally Posted by
B. Carfree
However, many motorists will try to pass a bike when there is inadequate space to do so if you invite them to try by curb-hugging. This latter, larger group may honk and be annoyed when you take the lane, but they will go around with room to spare if you are in the center of the lane.
This presumes that the driver even realized a cyclist was in the lane.
In this case, the curb as at the left on a relatively "high speed" road where most drivers would not expect anything (other than a car) in the left lane.
Taking the lane in this case might have been
worse.