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This to me is the best phrase I have read on the subject - thank you. It says so much more than 'primary is the default' etc etc. It opens the door to a style of teaching that helps people really understand how positioning should be dynamic - there are many many permutations about where to position yourself, as shown by this thread. Combined with such a wide range of trainees - esp in terms of the speed at which people will be cycling - there's only so much you are going to achieve in x hours of training.
My example is that maybe once a month I cycle down a stretch of the A22 Godstone-East Grinstead, it's narrow, it's heavily-trafficked, it's built-up and inter-urban, it varies between 60 and 30. In some places I'll be primary and some secondary (in fact in some stretches scare me and the theory and my practice differ). But I think my positioning has evolved through experience - if I was teaching someone this route there would be a lot of stops, discussion and observation. I suppose most Instructors would do the same.
I think that in this thread there's not much as much disagreement on positioning in practice as there might seem to be. Maybe it's the language of teaching that needs some clarity.