A bit of a rant

[OakLeaf]

I agree with 7rider. Spreading out also means the driver has to be held up multiple times and make multiple passes, and gets progressively more frustrated with each one.

It's even more annoying for a cyclist to pull off than it is for a driver to do it... but just as a polite cager will pull off to allow a moto to pass on a road with short sight lines, polite cyclists should pull off when a cage is stuck behind us for a long time. Heck, it's the law in some states that you have to pull off if you're traveling below the speed limit in any vehicle and there are more than five cars behind you.

And as much as it annoys me (and as little as I'm likely to do it in real life except as a passive-aggressive type of road rage complete with exaggerated mime of frustration), I think that includes times when the cager HAS plenty of safe passing opportunities but refuses to take them. I live in terror of being rear-ended (no matter what type of vehicle I'm in or on), because it's the one type of wreck that I have the least control over - and when someone's tailgating me for long stretches and refusing to pass, if I'm by myself, I will do that just to get them out from behind me.