Originally Posted by
_ForceD_
Well, if there was more traffic, or it was a two-lane road, a car would have passed you in the same lane. That is assuming you were adhering to bicycling regs and were at the extreme right side of the (right) lane. (This thread will probably get moved to the Advocacy & Safety forum.)
Dan
Cars typically don't pass me fully in the lane unless I take the shoulder, which I will if available. What they more typically do is straddle the yellow, which to your point would be analogous to a motorcycle staying to the left of my lane. I would have thought less of it in this scenario at a more reasonable speed. The road in this incident does have a shoulder I've moved to when large slugs of vehicles are approaching which is somewhat rare at the times I ride, but it is littered with poorly graded storm drains.