Re: Let's hide the bicyclists behind parked cars. What could go wrong?

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:41:30 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:16:55 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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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.
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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".

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

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Here, and I suspect in the U.S., we have fleets of 40 foot flat bed
trucks hauling a 40 foot, 10 wheel flat bed trailer, with two 40 ft.
shipping containers loaded, traveling about 80 KPH. One day on the
road from Bangkok to N.E. Thailand saw a measured 1 Km line of  them
(measured with speedometer) running nose to tail.
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Of course you have a legal right to use the road so given your
statement above I'm, sure you would have no qualms about "Seizing the
Lane"  in those circumstances.
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/seizing
Meaning of seizing in English
seizing - to take something quickly and keep or hold it:

Given Krygowski's propensity to lie and exaggerate, coupled with his
insistence that riding on bidirectional bike paths is dangerous, I'd
bet there's zero occasions of him ever riding along at 18 MPH ten feet
in front of an 18 wheeler on an unobstructed 60+ mph highway. More
likely, his lane seizing occurs on suburban 25 MPH streets and low
traffic rural roads, pretty much like I used to do and occasionally
still do.

--
C'est bon
Soloman