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Old 03-02-09 | 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by joejack951
Is this personal experience? Any chance you got to experience riding in a more curb-hugging position next to this mentally challenged individual?

My best was a pickup truck driver almost taking out a sapling planted in the ~15 foot wide swath of grass on my right which he used to pass me. I had to give him credit for being creative. He came no where near me while making the pass.
Yes, a few times here over the last 6½ years. All passes by me on my bike are at least at a 40mph differential, so I never know one pick up truck from another.

Currently most drivers give me at least 7 feet by moving totally into the left lane to pass, a few don't move all the way into the next lane but very, very few give me less than 5 feet. I can't remember any passes closer than 3 feet ever since I started using my raised pole of lights (about 4 years ago).

Being passed on the right in Philadelphia by drivers going straight through, using the right turn only, no parking/ bus stop zones at intersections as a passing lane was a daily occurrence while cycling (or driving) in the rightmost legal lane. In fact it was surprising when any space on the right, legal or not, was not used by some hot rodding driver as a quick passing/acceleration lane to get a car length ahead of other vehicles stopped at an intersection. Lane position of the legal vehicles was immaterial; if there was enough space, some impatient dummy would use it to pass.

The alleged lane/motorist controlling powers of the BF Alpha Dawgs sounds like the hot air of a few cyclists who have either not ventured too far from their own comfortable backyards or are deluded by their blind faith in their dogma.
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