@ b'n'y I don't want to use up too much internet space by re-quoting everything.
There was no need for the cyclist to move over to the left immediately after the cones finished (although I think he was on his way) as you suggested he needed to because, as you have stated above, the traffic was perfectly able to pass in the outside lane. I'm glad we agree
As you have said yourself the lane was not wide enough to perform a safe overtake, so the cyclists position is irrelevant, the fact that he is narrower than any other slower moving vehicle is also irrelevant, there is either sufficient room for a safe pass or there isn't and in this case, as you have said yourself, there isn't. I'm glad we agree again
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the motorists journey was not of any particular urgency considering he found the time to pull over for a chat to the cyclist, I'm also going to go out on a limb and guess that he wouldn't have pulled across any other motorised vehicle and forced them to stop in order to remonstrate with them and just for good measure I'm going to go out on yet another limb and suggest that you would guess the same.
It would appear that you feel that if you're in/on a slow moving vehicle and you are wider than a bicycle you are not an inconvenience, even if you are travelling at approximately the same rate, if you are the same width as a bicycle, I.E. a bicycle, you should kowtow to faster moving traffic. We don't agree on that
It is. I'm not one for getting cyclists off the road (obviously!) but this is one of the places that they should be banned from like motorways. Further down it turns into a dual carriageway of 70mph but people are doing that well before the change in speed limit. Really dangerous stretch of road - like I said previously, only seen 3 people do it and I ride over the footpath because it's that dangerous.
It may well, as you suggest, be a particularly hairy piece of road to negotiate, as it happens I am actually quite familiar with Runcorn bridge, however is the best course of action to ban cyclists from it or to improve the thing to make it safer for cyclists to use?