Bicycle Article on the Front page of the Sunday Business Section, of all places
http://www.gazette.com/articles/surgeon-60132-motorists-dedicated.html
Colorado Springs
Jim Flynn is a private attorney at Flynn Wright & Fredman LLC in Colorado Springs.
FLYNN:
New law has provisions for bicyclists and motorists
This column is dedicated to my bicycle riding friends (most of whom, on any given day, are under the care of an orthopedic surgeon).
The 2009 Colorado General Assembly, in an effort to create peaceful coexistence between bicyclists and motor vehicle operators, passed Senate Bill 148. The law went into effect Aug. 5. Here’s a description of some of itsprovisions.
• A motorist cannot pass a bicyclist unless there is at least three feet of space between the motorist’s vehicle, including mirrors and other projections, and the widest part of the bicyclist. (Bicyclists like to think this is their shoulders. As motorists know, this isn’t always true.)
• In a similar but more general vein, it is illegal for a motorist to drive unnecessarily close to, or toward, a bicyclist in a threatening manner.
• Motorists wanting to pass a bicyclist are allowed to cross over a do-not-cross lane marker if they can do so without interfering with, impeding or endangering (e.g., running into) other traffic.
• If a road is wide enough to accommodate both a bicycle and an overtaking vehicle, the bicyclist needs to stay far enough to the right to allow the overtaking vehicle to pass without moving out of its lane. However, a bicyclist is not expected to ride over or through hazards at the edge of the road including, but not limited to, fixed or moving objects, parked vehicles, pedestrians and animals. Bicyclists are also not expected to ride without a reasonable safety margin on the side of the road. (The law says the bicyclist gets to decide what constitutes a reasonable safety margin.)
• When approaching an intersection where there is a right turn lane, bicyclists may ride on the left portion of the right turn lane even though they are not going to make a turn at the intersection.
• Bicyclists can ride on the left side of the road when intending to make a left turn. They also can ride on the left side of the road if the road is one way and has at least two lanes of traffic. In that circumstance, the same rules that apply to riding on the right side of the road apply to riding on the left side of the road, except references to right are now references to left.
• Bicyclists cannot ride more than two abreast except on parts of a road specifically designated for bicycles. (Thus, no more six riders-wide swarming packs of multi-colored jerseys on, say, West Colorado Avenue.)
• If riding two abreast would impede the “normal and reasonable movement of traffic,†bicyclists must go single file. (The law makes no attempt to define what constitutes the normal and reasonable movement of traffic.)
• Motorists, no matter how much they want to, cannot throw things at bicyclists. Doing so is a class 2 misdemeanor. (Motorists also cannot throw things at other motorists. However, that is only a class 1 petty offense.)
The obvious lesson here is that no bicyclist should venture out on the road without at least one lawyer along for the ride. Also, bicyclists should not, in reliance on Senate Bill 148, reduce their health, disability and life insurance coverage.
The blue hair wouldn't see it at all though. 
We have a newish law in NM, where you are supposed to give a full lane of space to cops that have pulled someone over. Seems like I'm the only one that actually does it. The three foot law will greatly assist your heirs in the lawsuit later.