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Resurrecting this thread in the hopes of getting some advice about right hand turns and road positioning.
Cycling home this afternoon going past Oval station, I moved across from the left to the right lane in order turn right onto Brixton Rd. Nice gap in the traffic to do so, no probs. Except I'm not the fastest cyclist in the world and obviously traffic heading in the same direction catches up to me. I position myself leftish in the lane, which means that a couple of cars can get past me who are travelling in the right hand lane but heading straight towards Camberwell New Road.
Keeping an eye over my shoulder I then move over right in order to get in the box to make the right turn. Again, there was a healthy gap... but my being there obviously means vehicles have to slow down for a couple of seconds while I make this final move.
So I get an almighty blast of horn of a fecking huge HGV that wants to head straight. There was NO WAY that he a) couldn't see me the whole time b) that I made any move that could be construed as "coming from nowhere".
As I finally turn I get a load of shit out of the window like, "Nice fucking turn, my gel..." and another blast of the horn.
I'm baffled as to what I could have done differently, and can only assume that my only mistake was slowing the fucker down/being in the right lane at all/being a cyclist/breathing.
Either than, or my road positioning is faulty and needs work. Aside from speeding like lightning from the left lane to the right, at the very last minute, what could I have done differently?