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If I don't feel safe, it's not feasible to stay to the right, and necessary to take the lane.  Given some of the sentiment expressed here, that seems like the best alternative.  [/quote]

Good luck; I think you'd be safer on the right.[/quote]

Interesting - why is that?  And do you often ride?  I ask because I thought the way you do when I was a driver/pedestrian, but quickly changed my mind when I started biking.  When you're on the right, cars feel free to pass with impunity, often coming uncomfortably close.  You also risk getting doored, or having to screech to a halt, or try to quickly merge with traffic when an obstruction (more common along the right than in the center/left of the lane) appears.  In the center/left, cars have to completely enter the opposing lane to pass; they tend to be more careful in that situation (after all, it's their own safety at stake, not just some cyclist's).  Plus, you're more visible in the center, and that's very important.  This theory is, of course, premised on the assumption that drivers aren't sociopaths who would intentionally mow down a cyclist.  But if other cyclists have alternate theories, I'd love to hear them.  Non-cyclists, too, but I take those opinions with a grain of salt - as I said, my perspective changed dramatically once I started riding.  [/quote]

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