Don't know how instructive this would be to others, but I thought I'd share just in case.

See the pic, I was in the bike lane, there was a big truck to my right in one of the right-turn only lanes for the Interstate entrance ramp. Maybe not quite an 18-wheeler, but definitely a tractor/trailer.

When the light turned green, we both started forward. I quickly thought 'Jeez this guy is getting awful close, he must be starting leftish to make a really wide right turn'. And then he keeps getting lefter and lefter. Fortunately I stopped and let him pass because he (totally illegally!) crossed the bike lane to proceed 'straight' under the freeway!

I cannot fathom what was going through his mind. I know we made eye contact because while the light was red I dismounted my bike to take my jacket off, and I was turned and facing him. Maybe he thought that in that eye contact he communicated his crazy plan to me? How does he not (a) wait for me to go past before illegally changing lanes? (b) wait for car traffic that has right of way for the lane he's illegally changing into? (c) roll down the window and say 'hey man, I'm going over there so watch out', (d) give a honk or something?

What a great present for Bike to Work Day!

Well anyways, it's lunch, time to go get my bike and see how many others are joining me for a ride to Chipotle's, my company agreed to buy lunch for cyclists today!