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Full lane use is allowed when…avoiding hazards or unsafe conditions, traveling in a lane too narrow to share
As a cyclist, you never, ever, ever want to ride right on the white line. If you can go over into the road shoulder that’s often best, but assuming no shoulder, give yourself a good 50 centimetres. That gives you room to manoeuvre if you need to avoid an obstacle. When the law says “bicyclists are generally required to ride as far to the right of the roadway as practicable” (also quoted from that law about Mississippi), that’s what they mean. Because being right on the line is not practicable for safety reasons.
But most cars are at least 1.8 m wide, and most lanes are no more than 3.6 m (according to this, the vast majority of roads in Mississippi have lane widths of 12 ft or less). With a cyclist riding 0.5 m from the edge, having handlebars that are 1 m wide, and the requirement to overtake being 0.9 m in Mississippi, you’re looking at a minimum lane width of 4.2 m before it’s not “too narrow to share”. When the lane’s that wide, I’m with you: ride close to the edge (close, again, being about 0.5 m). But most of the time, you’re keeping yourself safer by preventing drivers close passing you.
This website doesn’t agree:
As a cyclist, you never, ever, ever want to ride right on the white line. If you can go over into the road shoulder that’s often best, but assuming no shoulder, give yourself a good 50 centimetres. That gives you room to manoeuvre if you need to avoid an obstacle. When the law says “bicyclists are generally required to ride as far to the right of the roadway as practicable” (also quoted from that law about Mississippi), that’s what they mean. Because being right on the line is not practicable for safety reasons.
But most cars are at least 1.8 m wide, and most lanes are no more than 3.6 m (according to this, the vast majority of roads in Mississippi have lane widths of 12 ft or less). With a cyclist riding 0.5 m from the edge, having handlebars that are 1 m wide, and the requirement to overtake being 0.9 m in Mississippi, you’re looking at a minimum lane width of 4.2 m before it’s not “too narrow to share”. When the lane’s that wide, I’m with you: ride close to the edge (close, again, being about 0.5 m). But most of the time, you’re keeping yourself safer by preventing drivers close passing you.