Not taking any chances....

The first thing that happened on my ride was going down a hill at about 30mph, where there are two lanes. The driver in the outside lane had his left indicator on, before he'd passed me so I yelled as I assumed he was about to pull into my lane and side swipe me. It turned out the moron just had no idea how to use indicators, but was still quite nerve racking.

Later on a car is pulling out, slowly behind a lorry and I assume they're just going to go for it so yell for them to wait. They do so that's okay. I yelled as I'd rather be safe than sorry.

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• Not taking any chances
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[PemboCycling]

2nd one - Similarly I often give a very short toot on the horn in this situation. I watched back some of my vids and wondered if it comes across hostile / paranoid but I suppose like the title its best not to take the chance.

[thomase1]

@PemboCycling I think a short toot of the horn is fine. If people want to take it as hostility then that's there problem (I loved tooting for everything when in Vietnam :D - the roads seemed really quiet when I got home).

When I shouted the girl was still pulling forward, so potentially giving the yell may have stopped her carrying on.

[AnotherCopierOfM13]

Lol never knew cycling gave the vocal chords such a good work out! :-)

[thomase1]

@AnotherCopierOfM13 hehe :)

[thomase1]

That's the one! :) I guess it's that, I wouldn't of intentionally done it. Just glad that the guy didn't start to pull over as I had as that'd of been pretty hairy.

[CyclingMikey]

Yes, I think target fixation perhaps? I've done it myself, which is why I noticed it here.

[thomase1]

@CyclingMikey It does look like that in the video. I didn't intentionally move nearer the car, so I'm not quite sure how it happened (I don't remember going closer)...Maybe it's a bit like that thing that we go where we look, so if you watch a pot hole to avoid it you actually go towards it.

I dunno, but I didn't realise I did that till seeing the video :)

[CyclingMikey]

It looks like you move towards the indicating car as you shout - is that right?

[thomase1]

@drsquirrel0 yeah, I think so too :P. When I realised they were just indicating incorrectly I felt a bit silly....but had they not been my yell might have been handy :)

[drsquirrel0]

Hahaha that kid must have thought you were crazy :p