Originally Posted by Blue Order
If your statement is true, that VC is acting like a vehicle driver when riding on roadways, then you'd have to admit that POWERWEAVING out in front of vehicles so they can see you before you POWERWEAVE back into your lane really ain't VC.
DLP is standard vehicular behavior - for drivers of slow vehicles. From farmers who temporarily pull partially in the shoulder to allow faster traffic to pass (and then move back to the left when they pass), to the bull dozer drivers who (technically illegally) temporarily merge right into the bike lane to allow "platoons" of cars to pass sometimes during my commute (yes, I merge out of the bike lane to pass the bulldozer on the left too, then watch him move left back into the travel lane after we all pass).
Heck, Bek likes to tease me about pointing this out, but when driving on 2 lane rural roads I have temporarily pulled into the shoulder to allow motorcycles to pass me on the left when the oncoming lane is unavailable for safe passing.
The reason DLP (a.k.a "POWERWEAVE" by those with an anti-HH vendetta) does not seem vehicular is because it's easy confuse "vehicular" with "normal speed" vehicular driver behavior. But "vehicular" encompasses the whole range of vehicle driver behavior, including the behavior of drivers of slower vehicles, which, of course, is more comparable to bicyclists much of the time.
Make sense?