"Mike Jacoubowsky" I've wondered whether cyclists really need a law that
requires cars to pass
us no closer than 3 feet. I generally don't have too many issues out on
the road, and it would seem that common sense and courtesy go a long way
towards making the world a reasonable place to drive and bike.

Until today.

I think part of the problem is that the car drivers are trying vainly to
stay in the same lane with us! I worry more about getting hit in the back of
the head by a rear-view mirror. That said, I think the closest call I've had
was a guy in a pickup truck pulling a long and empty trailer--the kind with
no sides. Although his truck changed lanes to pass us, when he pulled back
in the lane in front of us, the blankety blank trailer nearly wiped us out!
I don't think he was trying to hit us, but if there had been a 3-foot law,
maybe he would have thought of the trailer as well as his pickup truck. BTW.
our legislator who nixed the proposed 3 foot law, Kim Brimer, has a
challenger this year in Wendy Davis, a cyclist no less!

Pat in TX