mornhm - FSO wrote on 07/13/10 at 11:56:09:Youzguyz - do you move over and get out of the way when a car passes you? Do you share lanes when you are passing? Why do you think that bikers should do this - because they are going slower than the person passing them? By definition this is happening anytime one vehicle passes another. Do you expect slower cars to move over? At least in Illinois, when you pass a vehicle, you are required to miss everything else (Basically, you are leaving your lane which is all you are entitled to. So, yield to oncoming traffic and the vehicle you are passing when you come back into the same lane). Also, we do not have lane sharing, so you can't use the same lane (legally) to pass a MC or a bicycle or a car, etc.
No lane sharing/splitting in Texas.
Soooo.. on a 2 lane country back road through the hills. No passing allowed (double yellow line dude). You want me to sit behind a 5mph bicycle for 20 miles?
Ain't gonna happen.
Yes, if there is a car that wants to get around me, I will move over to the right as far as I safely can so he can see ahead of me and to reduce the amount of time it takes him to get around me. That applies to me in a cage or on my motorcycle.
People passing you here appreciate that action and you will always get a friendly waive or a flash of the brake lights when they get around you.