Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"

On 1/16/2025 4:23 AM, Catrike Ryder demonstrated amazing ignorance by writing:

how do you seize the lane
if you do not pull out into the traffic?

Our tricycle rider is so unfamiliar with riding on actual roads that he seems to visualize every road as always being bumper to bumper with speeding vehicles. But that oh-so-scary image is paranoid fantasy.
Almost all roads feature rather large gaps between moving vehicles. When I bicycle out of my street onto a four lane that carries something like 30,000 vehicles per day, I do it by waiting for a gap in traffic, much as I do when driving may car or riding my motorcycle.
With any of my three vehicles, I then place myself in the center of the lane. With any of those three vehicles, motorists who want to go faster than me merge into the next lane over to pass.
This is not rocket science. It's all according to existing traffic laws. It's not dangerous, it's not scary.
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- Frank Krygowski