Originally Posted by
livedarklions
Look, there's a lot of room between the stupidity of charging down a yellow line and your implied duty for us to keep out of drivers' ways. No, I'm not going to ride on a sidewalk (illegal in my state), and if a driver is going to have to wait to pass me safely when I'm legally riding on a road, too bad. The roads are chock full of slow moving motor vehicles, it's part of our duty as drivers to deal with that reasonably. And if the busy street is the most convenient for my riding, I have no obligation to take an out of the way side street and won't.
I don't own a $5000 bicycle and that has absolutely nothing to do with this.
I have eased over onto a sidewalk to let traffic vent. I don't like the subject sidewalk at all, for a number of reasons. I don't have any obligation to take the sides street that I take to avoid riding on the road our subject rider was on. It's a bit less convenient to take the side streets, but the side streets are safer, and it's much better for overall traffic flow.