X post from cycling group: Avoiding right hooking bicyclists

[NV Whino]

1. Personally, I think bicyclists need to take driving tests

Just as motorists do. Passing on the right, for instance, is a no no. So many of them breeze through intersections without stopping. They ride two abreast into the motorists' lanes. Sharing the road works both ways, but many bicyclists think motorists are the only ones required to share.

As for your dilemma, give them whatever space they claim and hope for the best. Until we create safe bike routes and bicyclists accept some of the responsibility for road safety, that's the best we can do.

I live in a rural area where roads are mountainous, narrow and windy. So called bike lanes are sometimes no more than inches wide. Roads are full of debris, which can throw a cyclist into your path with no warning. I cringe when I see a cyclist ahead of me, and coming upon one around a curve is terrifying.

Our roads are not designed for cyclists, and that has to change. Until it does, giving way to cyclists under all circumstances is the best way to avoid disaster.