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@chainwhip
Pointless random rearward checks is bad advice. You should look behind only when you are preparing/negotiating a lateral move. You have only so much eyes in your head, only so much focus in your mind. If your eyes and mind are focused rearward, then they are not focused forward. Forward is the event horizon where the stuff happens. Stare pointlessly rearward for a half a sec and miss that child darting in front of you from behind a parked van, pothole coming after your front wheel, driver entering the roadway etc etc.
The beauty of good positioning is that you can have your focus forward for a larger share of time. If you position only half-good like left tire track (damn I hate your non-drive-side driving) then you have to be constantly merging to more central position and that means wasting your attention rearward.
Other than that maximum respect to your NS. I'm constantly in awe that a society can produce something that non-clueless about cycling. Really best thing happening to cycling since the invention of the freewheel. Gives hope to those of us in the nations without standards.