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>>I’m happy for you, but if you’re doing this by driving around traffic instead of with it, then you’re asking for trouble, whether its legal or not. <<

Yeah, it is with the traffic. I do a nine mile commute on Coal Creek Parkway (mostly) from the Renton Highlands. It has a nice bicycle lane. On one trip, by the time I got to I-405 I passed 300 cars but only 100 of them had overtaken me at that point. Yeah, I counted that day. ;)

It is a little unnerving going down a hill at 45 mph in the bike lane next to dead stopped traffic, but there are no turnouts and I am waiting for someone to cut me off, at which point I jump the curb onto the sidewalk.

I actually had a semi driver in stopped traffic (about 15 cars ahead of me) turn his wheel hard right and plant it firmly against the curb. I’m sure it annoyed him no end when, as I approached the front of his rig I simply hopped onto the sidewalk without even slowing down and continued on, hopping back onto the road in front of him.

It would have been no skin off his nose if I had just rode past him on the road. I hate controllers. :(

Part of my 16 mile commute is along the 8 foot wide shoulder of a 50 mph roadway. It’s normally perfectly safe, I’m far out of traffic and catch a great draft whenever the cars come whizzing by.

So one day, I’m riding along on my road bike in the center of the shoulder three feet off the road. I’m wearing a neon yellow windbreaker, a green backpack with neon yellow fabric sewn on the back,an orange helmet and possibly even had a blinking taillight. Suddenly, I’m passed at 50 mph+ by some idiot woman in a black F150. Oh, did I mention that she was on the shoulder, 6 inches away from me and then dove back into the traffic lane. She was very surprised when I caught her at the next light. I think the dent came out of her hood after I punched it hard. Then she was stupid enough to roll the window down and tell me I should be riding on the sidewalk.

Drivers, you may also fall in to the moron category.