Originally Posted by Daily Commute
How can you position yourself to avoid a right hook? You can't, because you need to be in the line of traffic to do so and bike lane laws keep you off the road.
Now that one REALLY makes me laugh. NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, that anyone can do, short of tearing up all roads, will EVER stop the "Right Hook". A cyclist could be pedaling along in all his/her VC glory, taking up a proper VC position in the right lane of a two lane road, and a car will INEVITABLY pull a right hook on him/her from the left lane. If it's a one lane road, they will find a way, even crossing the center line against heavy traffic, to do it. ( I have SUCH good faith in today's drivers, really I do!!!
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