..What do you do on most roads like this.
Shout and scream expletives like a madman as I hit one after the other...
As has been said, don't be afraid to move out. Contrary to (thier) popular opinion, cars dont have some kind of priority on roads, therefore if they are stuck behind you; tough.
I actually treat cycling very much as if Im driving a car. Im very protective of my road position for a multitude of reasons; the gutter/debris/pothole stuff of course, but also the fact that actual road navigation can be unsafely complicated by yielding too readily. If you hug the curbs you let the cars dictate to you, so when you want to make a RHT or something, you have already been inviting more overtakes so it becomes more dangerous to move into position to make the turn. I also generally am of the view that I'll control when someone overtakes me to a large degree. I know its the car-drivers responsiblity to make the call in reality, but frankly I've had too many near misses to trust the judgement of a random stranger behind me. Unless the road is open, spacious and straight, a car behind me will generally have to take the same considerations than as if they were passing another slow moving car/tractor/whatever... Plus, its a zillion times safer to move *in* to avoid road clutter, than swerve out.
Or, the other way I look at it; the gutter is for the accumulation of trash and rubbish. My nice shiny bike most definately does not belong in there!
