Originally Posted by njkayaker

General rule: "Cyclists have all the rights and the duties that apply to drivers of vehicles."

Exception/qualification: "A bicyclist moving below the speed of other traffic shall ride as near as practicable to the right curb or edge of the roadway".

The Texas law is pretty-much the standard FRAP law. The interesting thing about the FRAP law is that it allows the cyclist a fairly-wide lattitude in making the decision to "take the lane" or not. The "Conditions of the roadway ... make it unsafe to ride next to the right curb or edge of the roadway" clause lists some examples but it doesn't list all of the reasons. This clause makes it clear that the cyclist has to have some reason not to ride to the right and that reason has to be related to safety. "Just because they want to" is not such a reason.