ahh, buuut! ) When reasonably necessary to avoid hazardous conditions including, but not limited to, fixed or moving objects, parked or moving vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, animals, surface hazards or other conditions that make continued operation along the right curb or edge unsafe or to avoid unsafe operation in a lane on the roadway that is too narrow for a bicycle and vehicle to travel safely side by side.
to avoid hazardous conditions of being overtaken agressively on a road that is too narrow, you ride in the middle of hte lane. In oregon, bicycles have full use of lane. The edge of the road is also always full of debre and glass, so.. we can and do ride in the middle of the road, and if you don't like it, move out. > Polyhead wrote: > > Yea well, keep in mind, in some states, like Oregon, By law, > > bicyclist have full use of the right hand lane. In other words, by > > law, we are SUPPOSE to ride in the middle of the lane and you ARE > > suppose to just sit behind us till you can find a proper place to > > pass. > > > Once again, you're full of it. > > From http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/BIKEPED/docs/bike_ped_statutes_2007.pdf > > 814.430 Improper use of lanes; exceptions; penalty. (1) A person commits > the offense of improper use of lanes by a bicycle if the person is > operating a bicycle on a roadway at less than the normal speed of > traffic using the roadway at that time and place under the existing > conditions and the person does not ride as close as practicable to the > right curb or edge of the roadway. > > Nincompoop. > > -- > Scott Loveless > http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Ben 'Polyhead' Smith KE7GAL -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
