Originally Posted by
joejack951
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Well, not really. What he said was that if traffic was spaced out such that he was only encountering a faster moving vehicle every 15 seconds or so that he would stay left and only move over after traffic had reached him. Given the tight space to manuever in based on your description of the road, he'd prefer that traffic slowed to his speed first to avoid a high speed close pass (at least that's why I would do it and I why I assume HH would too). ....
Unnecessary, and selfish. Not smooth. Not good citizenship. This qualifies imo as 'prima donna' cycling.
I'm not sure if these are traffic cycling issues, ultimately, or personality issues. There is that old saying, if you can't share then you don't get to play. I would say for those who haven't learned to share and play nice with others, they should stay out of traffic. It would be better for all of us if the 'prima donnas' stayed home to ride their keyboards.
Originally Posted by
joejack951
Proper situational awareness and super bike handling skills, or just the former? If your lane position is a dynamic thing, changing due to roadway width, intersections, and traffic, you already have situational awareness. That awareness tells you that just because traffic is approaching from behind that it's not a good time to move right. I wouldn't throw my awareness of the current situation away and put myself where a worse situation could occur just because I was confident that I could handle my way out of that worse situation if necessary. I'd rather not put myself there at all.
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Well, you're going to be there at some point, whether you like it or not. Do you have some strategy to deal with less than ideal situations? 'Don't get in less than ideal situations' is not a good answer to that.
Robert