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@Scrublord
I got called out today and wanted to make sure I was in the wrong.
Riding in the primary position down Clerkenwell road in slow moving traffic behind a row of taxis as they approach a light. I slowly brake to a stop as I don't filter on the left. I had left enough space on the left for anybody who wanted to undertake (a damn sight more space than the gap between the curb and the line of traffic that was in any case converging).
Cue some guy cussing me out for apparently brake checking him as he swerves and overtakes me to filter up the left. I don't like being accused of causing an accident so when I caught up to him I apologised and tried to explain that I don't filter on the left and in any case there wasn't a gap big enough for my bike (pedal striking the curb if I'm on the yellow lines). He just shook his head and muttered that I shouldn't be on the road.
I felt that I was going slow enough and braking slow enough that he had to be tailgating or really barrelling it down to have to swerve to avoid me.