Near Misses Volume 2 (So close you can feel it)

Your doing it for safety, he is doing it for clicks. There is a difference, and he does pull in, but from what I see, only to get annoyed that he has been cut off. Personally, it depends on the road and situation for me. In the town/city, it's almost always take the lane. On the N25 with a decent quality hard shoulder, I don't have to but I will stay in the hard shoulder, only come out of it to overtake tractors/pedestrians, or coming upto a junction. If I indicated to come out, some will pull out to allow, some will slow to allow, some won't but it's rare to get boxed in for more than a few seconds. It is so incredibly rare to get the interactions that he does with lorries and I meet loads every day. There is a truck stop for overnights beside my house, down rural back roads, never have any of them had an issue waiting behind while I'm on my commute. I get more trouble from inattentive school runs in D4 in one morning than I get in a year of out of town cycling. Everyone's mileage will vary but he could make his life easier, but it wouldn't make for good footage. Alot of times he is 100% right, but unfortunately, alot of other times the situation is entirely of his own making. Like anywhere though, there is enough people ready to rise to it. In no way am I excusing the drivers he interacts with either, often completely ignorant and not the way I would drive, and shows that it is completely possible for both parties to be 100% in the wrong and both think they are 100% in the right.

It's a panic reaction as you may know what you've said or plan to do but they have seconds to react and don't. If the option is there, hop onto the road or slow down to walking pace, otherwise just stop until their reaction is clear. If you can move to the road or give them loads of space, don't call out anything at all.

On your right seems to get misheard as move right so many times, I'd only say it to a rider I'm on a spin with or actually, in a race with.

No different than when I am driving and I meet a cyclist or a pedestrian, if I have to come to a dead stop to be sure, so be it.

Don't think it is meant as an antagonistic comment, I think it is just a general excuse when there is no plausible one. One they think they would get away with if they walked into someone coming down the street. Like an auto reaction, rather than the more honest, I seen you but my brain just didn't care to give enough time to think the situation, likelihood or consequences through. As a species we are quite atrocious at those two things, even worse at putting them together.

I am starting to hate a certain type of ebike riders and, in the most click bait of titles, it is not the one you are thinking of...

It is all men my age, commuting, just ploughing on through groups stopped at lights, through reds as other cyclists come from other junctions. I used ungentlemanly language to express my frustration at the one who winged me while I waited for the red light to change this morning.

100%, never have an issue with someone who was clearly gaining on me going ahead. The lad on the ebike came through me and someone else despite a) I overtook him only 25 seconds before, b) there wasn't space (he hit me), well there would have been if he had slowed c) he went through us all at the same speed he was tipping along at, maybe 30kmph, straight through a ped junction, which someone was on but luckily he missed but he couldn't see because of his speed and there was a large vehicle blocking his view on approach. d) he was a ****, not knowing your a **** doesn't mean your not a ****.