Originally Posted by Helmet Head
In post
#266 you quoted me:
To which you claimed: "I have tested
this for myself, ..."
That is the alleged lie.
When I asked you to clarify what you were referring to by "this", you dodged the question without answering it in
#273.
I didn't ask you to define this, I wanted you to clarify whether you were referring to "riding up ahead in motorist's paths and observing their behavior in a mirror", which is the only reasonable reference you could have been making.
When pressed by JJ and myself on this issue, you never gave any indication whatsoever to back up your claim that you actually did test "this".
The only reasonable conclusion is that if you had tested "this", you'd be able to answer at least some of the questions that we asked, instead of dodging. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that you lied.
I have had much more cycling experience than you. When I said I had tested your theory, I meant that I had observed driver behavior with respect to my lateral position in a wide variety of environments (WOL, BL, NOL, urban, French, etc.), and not found any significant degree of safety enhancement from the Peek-a-Boo technique you promote. I nearly always use a mirror, and I'm often "up ahead in the motorist's path" (e.g., on road with no shoulder). In my experience, drivers don't seem to notice me any sooner if I'm 0.6 degrees left, nor do they give me any more room than they would otherwise. I'm wise enough to neither hug the curb, nor drift back and forth playing Peek-a-Boo.
FWIW, other noted cycling authorities have also taken you to task for promoting such nonsense as if it were divinely inspired (see Robert Hurst's eloquent skewerings, for instance).
With your lengthy history of being pedantic, hard-headed, self-possessed, and arrogant, it should not come as a shock to you when others lose interest somewhere around post #250 or so, stop answering your silly repetitive questions, and find other more useful and fun things to do (like, ride my bike).