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Tonts
So have a bit of a "who was in the wrong?" thing from this morning.
I'm coming on to the main road from my flat. Traffic is backed up southbound, I need to get across that to go northbound. I ride very slowly between two stationary vans looking to my left to see if anything is coming northbound, as I can't see past the vans until I get my head past.
Suddenly hear a "WARGARBLE!" from my right, and a cyclist comes past very close from the right and I just nudge his rear wheel as he passes. He then stops and starts hurling invectives and "fucking look!". I apologise and we move on.
But was that my fault? Because I was between two vans I could not see what was coming either way at that point and I was pretty much tiptoeing it out. Was he filtering too close? Can he really have a go at me for not looking as I was looking in the direction I expected traffic to be coming from? What if I had been a pedestrian?
On the other hand, I was looking so intensely for what was coming from the left, I'm not sure I would have looked to my right before I pulled out later.