I can see why you might've. My first line -- "that's pretty much what I did Sunday on a road I travel fairly often," in response to HH saying he shifts position when there's very little traffic -- does make it sound like I was saying I was shifting my position. Ain't what I meant, but I get why you would have thought it was. I shouldn't have been posting so late at night. My mind gets mushy by then.

I almost always choose one position and stick with it. Probably 95% of the time or better.

It's only in the rare cases when I'm on a street/road with wide lanes and next to no traffic that I shift around. I figure if I'm in the middle of their travel lane, they can see me sooner. Like 500 feet back instead of 100 ft back (or never). Since I use a mirror and check it often, I see them coming up behind me and I don't slow them down. If they notice me, they're less likely to hit me. I didn't learn it from a book, I just had cars turn right in front of me, or right into me, a few times, and I figured out they hadn't seen me. Because I wasn't where they were looking.

But since almost all the wide streets and roads around here have pretty steady traffic, pretty much almost all the time, it's usually a moot point. I almost always just choose one place to be and then stay there.

In a narrow lane, I'm close to the middle. In a wide lane, I'm 3'-4' off the right edge, unless there's a good reason to be further left, like debris, parked cars, et cet. I don't want to be in anyone else's way if I can help it.

But even more than that, I don't want to get hit. That's the whole ballgame as far as I'm concerned.

Sunday I was too far to the right. Because I was going so slow and letting my desire not to be in anyone else's way override my desire to be passed safely. Very dumb on my part. The lane was too narrow to share, so I should have been steady-on, right in the middle.

Again, would anyone else have done it differently?