I forgot to mention how mad I got on our ride Saturday morning when a guy who clearly didn't know his bike laws yelled at me.
This was a 2 lane highway with shoulders on either side. However, the shoulder surface was awful and not exactly rideable. So, I was riding as close to the right side of the driving lane as I could, which is perfectly legal. At times I was even on the white line, but not on the shoulder. A group of men came through and started yelling "passing on your RIGHT" (for those that don't know, it is just like driving, you are supposed to pass on the left). Then he continues to yell at me and say that I really need to get over so people aren't passing me on the right. Before I had time to tell him to know his bike laws, he was gone. Fine with me if he enjoyed riding in the gravel pit of a shoulder - it was all his. The funnier thing was the fastest riders were coming back on this same road by then, and you could assume they were perhaps some of the more experienced riders as well...not one of them rode on that shoulder - they all rode in the lane.
This was a 2 lane highway with shoulders on either side. However, the shoulder surface was awful and not exactly rideable. So, I was riding as close to the right side of the driving lane as I could, which is perfectly legal. At times I was even on the white line, but not on the shoulder. A group of men came through and started yelling "passing on your RIGHT" (for those that don't know, it is just like driving, you are supposed to pass on the left). Then he continues to yell at me and say that I really need to get over so people aren't passing me on the right. Before I had time to tell him to know his bike laws, he was gone. Fine with me if he enjoyed riding in the gravel pit of a shoulder - it was all his. The funnier thing was the fastest riders were coming back on this same road by then, and you could assume they were perhaps some of the more experienced riders as well...not one of them rode on that shoulder - they all rode in the lane.
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