OK pal, no issue with most of your rants, but this one:
Just where would you have them pass you? Perhaps walking their bike and groveling at your vehicular superiority?
Have you ever ridden a bicycle on public roads? All the exercise haters screech about cyclists not staying in bike paths, having never tried riding in one.
If you had, you would have seen all the broken glass and fast food debris from car and truck drivers that pollute the "bike lane". For much of some roads, riding there is a ticket to flat tires.
Moving over to avoid glass is something that has to be done. Understand that the bike you approach is not a steamship and may have to undertake defensive maneuvers from road debris.
I have scars from a flat tire at speed from some @sshole's broken bottle. Don't tell me about staying in bike lanes.
Yep. I had a tire get cut so bad by glass I couldn’t fix it, so now I run Gatorskins on my road bike, and don’t care if they weigh a few grams more.
Passing a vehicle on the right in the same lane is illegal and dangerous. When a car turning right at a traffic signal turns you into jelly because you've tried to sneak past him in the wrong lane it'll be too late to understand why. When a passenger throws her door open and you fly over the top of it, cracking your head on the sidewalk will be as well.
As for the stuff about the bike lane, you're hating on the wrong FReeper. I specifically take issue with several clowns on this thread who b!tch about cyclists not "staying in their lane." Legitimately, the whole travel lane belongs to the vehicle in it, with the exception that cyclists are required to stay as far to the right as safety permits. If there is debris in the bike lane, safety doesn't permit travel there, and cars who honk or harass cyclists who can't travel in the bike lane are breaking the law.
On the other hand, cyclists who ride side-by-side with following traffic are in violation of the vehicle code since one of them clearly is not "as far to the right as safely permissible."
“All the exercise haters screech about cyclists not staying in bike paths, having never tried riding in one.
So everyone that doesn’t like poking along behind a group of spandex wearing idiots is an “exercise hater?” I exercise daily, 7 days a week, 365 days a year but I don’t impose my activity on anyone else. I always try to be considerate of other people. You never know when that person poking along behind you is trying to get to the hospital, or home because they are sick, or a loved one is hurt....
So it's cool for you to force cars into oncoming traffic because of glass in your lane ? How about you stop and wait until it's clear to go around the glass ?