[QUOTE 5254935, member: 10119"]Yeah, you're not wrong.
I had a nastily close pass from a van this morning. I was already riding quite far out (avoiding a loose gravelly patch where some surface dressing always accumulates near a junction to my left and a pothole to my right, and just before a temporarily re-jigged bit of road due to a building site where there's a distinct kink in the road and they've put central bollards separating the two lanes) when I spotted a new-since-I-last-rode-that-stretch-2-weeks-ago surface hazard on the line I was taking and moved an extra few inches (possibly as much as 6 of them) to the right to avoid it as a van decided it needed to get past before the lane separation bollards started. It might have been as much as a foot from my shoulder as it accelerated past me before cutting sharply left because of the aforementioned jink. It must have been at least 10 feet ahead of me by the time I got past the bollards and pulled over into the right filter lane for my junction, as the van driver had to apply the brakes because of the slow moving traffic approaching the roundabout ahead... It wouldn't have caused any delay to them at all to just hang back for a minute until the road was wider, clear and with decent sightlines.
But everyone was OK, and the sun was shining, and the commute was otherwise rather pleasant. Edit to add - also, a friendly driver going the other way stopped to let me make my right turn even though that meant that a vehicle turning left minor to major out of the road I was turning into got ahead of them. They also got the big grin and a cheery wave treatment.
*finding my zen*[/QUOTE]
Beautiful post, Crinks!