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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Let's hide the bicyclists behind parked cars.
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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:16:55 -0500
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On 1/11/2025 3:50 PM, cyclintom wrote:
> On Fri Jan 10 18:42:07 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:
>> 
>> I've never said I take the lane "everywhere." I've said many, many times
>> that if there's enough space to safely share the lane, I do that.
>>
>> I'm not riding anywhere now, with lots of now and temperatures below 25
>> Fahrenheit. But in milder weather, yes, I prefer to ride quiet streets.
>> But when necessary or desirable, I ride the four lane with ~30,000 cars
>> per day that's a quarter mile from my house. I ride city center downtown
>> streets. I ride country roads, including state highways. Out west, I've
>> ridden hundreds of miles on freeways where that was legal.
> 
> Frank, the problemn is that you're always careful to leave and out while implying otherwise. Do not say " I take the lane" without including "when safe".

I take the lane pretty much by default. I don't take the lane when the 
lane is wide enough to safely share - that is, so wide that a car could 
pass me giving at least three feet of clearance without moving left into 
the next lane over.

I keep asking you and others about being approached from behind by an 
8.5 foot truck (a common truck width) while riding in a 10 foot lane 
(common around here) with no shoulder (also common).  I absolutely would 
be in the center of the lane in that situation. There's no reasonable 
alternative other than jumping off your bike - and perhaps, touching 
your forehead to the ground as a sign of submission.

I have a legal right to the road. I use it.

-- 
- Frank Krygowski