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On an American road it makes sense. You want to claim more space for your own safety. Which should be fine, in most places in the us bicycles are legally no different from a truck when it comes to traffic rules.
And yet the traffic rules don't stop cyclists from riding the wrong way down my one-way street a dozen times a day. I've nearly hit them with my car door or walked in front of them with my dog because I'm checking the other direction, where cars would be coming from. No cop is going to pull over a bicycle so they just ignore the rules.
Rules often allow cyclists to go either way on one way streets
In my state bicycles that are riding on the road must obey all traffic laws as if they were a motorcycle. I see cyclists break those laws every day and there will never be consequences.