Originally Posted by
Iride01
just as wrong IMO for you to be riding on the shoulder.
When I'm in the traffic lane, I think the traffic behind me more fully understands my intentions.
I have to assume you misunderstood the nature of the road.
I can assure you, you would have received (and fully deserved) an extremely negative reaction had you tried to ride those several miles in the travel lane, rather than the lane-wide shoulder of this road with fast and continuous traffic in both directions.
There is zero question that the lane-like shoulder was the only viable way to ride this route: the title of the thread was not "riding on the shoulder" but rather "driving on the shoulder"