BICYCLES ALLOWED USE OF FULL LANE

**IT'S THE LAW!**
California Vehicle Code, section 21202

21202. (a) **Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway
at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic** moving in
the same direction at that time **shall ride as close as
practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway
except under any of the following situations**:

    (1) When overtaking and passing another bicycle or vehicle
proceeding in the same direction.

    (2) When preparing for a left turn at an intersection or
into a private road or driveway.

    (3) **When reasonably necessary to avoid conditions**
(including, but not limited to, fixed or moving objects,
vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, animals, surface hazards,
or substandard width lanes) **that make it unsafe to
continue along the right-hand curb or edge,** subject to the
provisions of Section 21656. For purposes of this section, a
"substandard width lane" is a lane that is too narrow for a
bicycle and a vehicle to travel safely side by side within
the lane.

    (4) When approaching a place where a right turn is
authorized.

(b) Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway of a
highway, which highway carries traffic in one direction only
and has two or more marked traffic lanes, may ride as near
the left-hand curb or edge of that roadway as practicable.