Originally Posted by alzjr

Almost all bicyclists also drive cars. We don't instantaneously become idiots just because we are on a bicycle.

Most car drivers do not ride bicycles on our streets in The Villages so they cannot have any idea what is safe for a cyclist.

How many times have you been out in your car and not seen a bicycle? Bicycles are not that big a problem.

Driving a bicycle in the middle of a lane is safer because I know from driving a car I do not run into the back of slower vehicles in front of me. If I did run into a slower vehicle in front of me it would really delay getting to my destination. (wait for the sheriff and he would have to call the FHP because it is a personal injury accident, and then the time in court for a ticket for hitting a vehicle from behind, and then the increase in insurance for an at fault accident)

It is much easier and little effort (power steering) to signal and move over to the other lane.

Besides, regardless of our interpretation of the law the Sumter County Sheriff's deputies' have agreed that on our four lane roads a bicyclist can use the whole lane, and they are the ones that write the tickets.