Originally Posted by
JoeyBike
It is painful to agree with you. But i can't see how any rigid cycling dogma would work under every circumstance. I get beaten up around here enough, but my dogma is really "anything goes" within the confines of the individual cyclist's sensibilities. If you believes it makes you safer, do it. In my vast cycling experiences, I have tried everything, and continue to select from a wide menu of techniques, some of which are just not possible for the average cyclist.
Do we really want every sub-10mph cyclist in the world cycling VC style? You think motorists are pi$$ed a us now?
Too many variables involved to preach any fixed set of rules for cycling nationwide (USA). Therefore, statistics can not exist regarding VC.
Have you read the article? The approach taken by CyclingSavvy is not to tell people what to do or how to ride, but to present the various options and pros and cons of each. Ultimately, each cyclist has to make his or her own decisions, of course.
Do you think the article is referring to any "rigid cycling dogma"? If so, what? (please quote). If not, why are you talking about that here?
Plenty of folks all over the country use the full lane in narrow lanes at sub-10 mph, whether climbing, pulling a kid or a lot of gear, or just a newbie slow cyclist who is a recent CyclingSavvy graduate; and generally they report much better treatment from motorists when doing that than when edge riding.
Yes, the statistics would be very difficult to collect, if not impossible.