Bikedup wrote:

"I want to go where all of the cars are"

Kevin's comment:

I always do. That is to say unless I am on a fully-seperated pathway I always take the lane. I ride a Veloteq '07 Challenger and it is too big to allow cars to pass me safely within a lane.

The only exception I make to this rule is when there is serious congestion at an intersection (quite common in Toronto), in which case I'll pass all the cars, but very carefully.

I don't use bike lanes, because they are so full of bicycles that I would be continually pulling out of the bike lane to pass bicycles. Such continuous lane changes would also be unsafe, so I always ride in the centre of the regular traffic lane.