| Comment | Probably even more dangerous.
He's on the opposite side of the bus from the driver. Just as you shouldn't creep up the outside of a large vehicle from behind, I wouldn't pop my brakes to slide back down that side of it in motion.
If the cyclist brakes, he risks the driver miscalculating the distance between the bus and the parked cars and squeezing him in there.
The safest thing is always simply to ride in the middle of the lane, where you can't be crushed against parked cars, or forced into the gutter. If anyone wants to overtake you, they can, just as if you were a car: by passing you in the opposite lane *only when* it's safe to do so. |
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