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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are not a car.  Move your bike off to the right.  You are holding up hundreds of cars behind you that now have to go 30-40mph below the speed limit.

I am an avid runner and biker. Multiple marathons and bike races, countless training hours and I never for once thought I was a car.[/quote]

People always bring the move to the right point up, but that is simply not the law.  Does it suck driving on Beach drive behind someone on a bike going 20 miles an hour, yes.  But no kore than driving behind a car doing the same.  Bikes are legally permitted to be in the middle of the lane.

And I don't think I have ever encountered a bicyclist on a road whee the speed limit was above 30 miles an hour, so I don't know why you are driving 30-40 miles below the speed limit.  Maybe on a hill, but most people who ride in the road are going between 15-25 miles an hour on their bikes.[/quote]

We are just as pissed when a car blocks a lane of traffic by going unnecessarily slow, believe me, but at least the slow car is going 20 or 25 in a 35 mph zone, not 10 mph as the bike is. Even if I am not in a hurry and can be patient, it creates a dangerous situation because most of the cars in the line behind the bike will be trying to change lanes and the whole street will suddenly back up for two blocks or more because of one person on a major two-lane connector.

My biggest peeve is this, which has happened to me a couple of times on Wisconsin Avenue: traffic is backed up behind a slow biker, I patiently wait for a break in the left lane and pass the biker, and then when the cars stop at a light, the biker rides between the stopped cars and runs the red light to get back in front of us and then block the lane again. [/quote]

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