<p>I’m with dmd here: regardless of the legality, cycling on the sidewalks is inadvisable, for just the reason dmd said.</p>
<p>Momofthreeboys, your car has brakes. If you can’t pass the cyclist with three feet to spare, you must wait until it is safe to pass. “There wasn’t room to pass but I decided to pass anyway,” is not a defense in law, nor would it make you feel better if you struck and killed a cyclist. It astounds me that drivers will pass me with six inches to spare, when they would never squeeze by a car that close. Apparently my life is worth less than someone’s bumper.</p>