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@Sparky
I appreciate all this advice about being assertive, but I assure you I'm not a meek rider. If you're 100 yards from your turn-off and you indicate and look behind for eye-contact and none is forthcoming and the cars blast past you at 40mph and the gimp behind follows the gimp behind, etc, then there is, occasionally, a period where you can't get out.
I'm not sitting there in the gutter, but likewise I'm not going to cycle so far out that I block the only lane of traffic on a 40mph road for 3 miles... Especially in a suit on a hybrid when I struggle to maintain double-digit speed.