Visual Aids for Cycle Training

There's no guarantees that you won't ever be hit in any circumstance, but stopping and giving way to drivers in this scenario sends them (and those cycling around you) mixed messages - what if it's not you they meet next time and they turn across a rider who was understandably expecting the right of way?

I don't think your video is showing best practice in this case.

Happy to be corrected by those with better knowledge of the National Cycling Standard. Slowing to confirm safety (eye contact) and then proceeding with right of way is what i'd teach.

Thanks for the comments.

What we're talking about here is trying to mitigate different and competing risks. In dynamic traffic situations you have to consider (amongst other things) risk exposure. I certainly think eye-contact is a useful aid, but the driver did not look directly at me even though I was focussed on them.

Waiting does send mixed messages (the positve message is that it primes other cyclists to the danger of gaps in queuing traffic at junctions), but to be honest, I'm more concerned about a) enjoying myself and b) avoiding injury when I'm riding. If I can set an example, I try, but it's more likely that others can learn from my mistakes.

Was I cautious, or overly cautious in the vid? I'm not sure. Watch the car on my right, it moves to proceed (as you have suggested), but then the van turns across his path into the junction.

In addition, drivers often flash other drivers through in this scenario and a driver turning across the bus lane ocassionally abnegates his/her responsibility to look and continue only if it is clear.

The vid is certainly not supposed to be an example of "best practice" - it's a messy, real world scenario where you're trying to weigh up what is essentially a risk matrix on the fly.