Calling the Cops on Me?!

[kfergos]

I'm not trying to be contrary here, and I do think the woman was over-reacting, but I thought cyclists were supposed to get completely off the roadway when we stopped regardless of what type of road it is.

I certainly made sure to be out of the way after that! I stopped the way I did because I thought I'd only be a minute, and when I stopped it didn't look like there was anybody around to be inconvenienced.

However, you could very well be right -- I haven't heard anything either way at the couple of intro biking classes I took, and it definitely wouldn't have hurt for me to have been more off the roadway. I'd be interested to hear if anybody with more legal knowledge of biking than me knows anything about this.

[Geonz]

It's probably not *illegal* (and even if it were it really would be laughable).

After my mishap, I made a stern note to myself that it was much more important to haul my buns out of the way than to look for a license plate number. Three weeks later, I was making a left turn from a left turn only lane, and the fellow in the truck perpendicularly to my left was doing the same, was only looking for oncoming traffic, and cut the corner 'way too closely. I do believe I moved faster for the previous encounter, and while he nicked my basket and knocked me down, it was lots better than it could have been.

[uforgot]

I'm sort of confused here. Were you still in the road? Or were you on the shoulder?