You have rights and you have responsibilities. I'm not sure you understand your responsibilities.

You're not the only person out there. If you act like you are, as it seems you would judging by your words on this topic, that's prima donna cycling. That's selfish, and unreasonable, and uncompromising. And, incidentally, it happens to be illegal, despite y'all's tortured interpretations of the law.

There is a dance to traffic cycling. It's give and take. Not just take. Try it. Lane-taking is a valuable strategy. However, it is not a good substitute for experience in traffic. Many inexperienced riders use it as a crutch. The real danger of course not that they will piss off motorists, but that they will believe that an advantageous lane position makes them safe.

It's frustrating to repeatedly hand-hold inexperienced cyclists through these endless circular discussions concerning situations of which they have minimal knowledge and apparently can't even conceive, when real hands-on experience on the type of road in question would quickly make you realize what I'm talking about.

Robert