
OK - but - I live in the boonies! The highway is just going through to get from point A to point B. The only other bikes that ever come through here are people touring for hundreds of miles, and they're very far and few between. The last thing a vehicle here would expect to see is a bicycle. They totally don't expect it.
The curvy road is used by a lot of rednecks who love taking the curves fast, for fun. These aren't your run-of-the-mill normal rational city drivers . . .if they don't see me, they're just going to keep accelerating and hooting and hollering, throwing beer cans and having fun! Don't want to get hit on the head with a beer can! ROFLOL
I need that blushing smiley again.