Originally Posted by
Iride01
I wouldn't be in the shoulder unless state law required me to be in the shoulder. Or I was stopped for an emergency. Which is the purpose of shoulders in most states.
It depends on the state and the state of the roads. OP rides on Southern NJ where the road surface is good but so are the shoulders, very good. When I am down there, I never ever ride on the road, I stay on the very wide and generally nice shoulder. One of the roads I ride often has a good shoulder for 80-90% of it. Where the shoulder is broken, very small, and filled with garbage, I stay just to the left of the fog lane observing my mirror and garmin varia. Going out into the lane with 60mph texting idiots is asking for an earlier death.