Where I am there's often tractors on the road. A lot harder to overtake, and I still manage to refrain from getting angry at them either!
People need to just chill the fuck out.
But in traffic and the laws lane usage is binary. There is no such thing as half lanes, you cannot use the second lane "a little". You either need it, or you don't.
So overtaking a bicycle, a motorbike, a pedestrian on the road or a tractor, etc. it is all the same.
What I'm trying to say is, where I live people forget that all the time, and then they think they can "squeeze by", endangering cyclists, motorcyclists and most of all the opposing traffic. I see this multiple times a week in the summer.
It's still a lot easier than passing a tractor.
See https://www.northants.police.uk/police-forces/northamptonshi...
Also, cyclists have to keep roughly the same distance from parked cars (“reasonable distance”, OLG Düsseldorf ruled 2018 that this means 1.5 meters from parked cars or 80 cm from a curb if there are no cars).
With those two rules combined, in most city streets bicyclists require a full lane.
Which is the most dangerous place to be of all. Cyclists must avoid this zone except for near-zero speeds.
I usually tell new cyclists to assume that you are never seen unless you are right in front of a car. Assume all cars have no mirrors, side windows and all doors can be opened at any time. In a car, the mentality is usually "if I have the right of way I'll do it", on a bike it's a death wish.
2. In the city they're even less of an issue, because the speed limit is 50 km/h and they're doing what, 20-40km/h? It's not that big a deal especially if you factor in intersections, roundabouts, etc.
3. They're still narrower than farm tractors. Or herds of cattle. It's just not that big a deal.
In italy they go side by side in groups of 2 or 3… (which is forbidden but who cares).