Originally Posted by
jamesdenver
Yes - I'm not a militant angry cyclist (most days) but this annoys me to no end, especially approaching a stop sign when someone zooms around me.
If I hear a car approaching while coming to a red light I often speed up instead of lazily coasting to a stop like normal. And take the lane more to prevent getting passed/cut off.
Yep! Most of the signals I have to contend with are on four lane roads. Commonly, while coasting to a stop (or timing the green), cars will merge at the last second to be ahead of me rather than in the lane next to me.
When that happens I will filter forward to the front of that car, either to the crosswalk lines or to just behind the the car in front of it, and take the lane. Yes I know: petty. But outside of this I am a paragon of virtue!
