Originally Posted by halfpint

Ok Did not mean it in that way , I was coming from Bognor to southampton and on the a27 a van pulled over into my lane because he wanted to overtake the car in front of him, He forced me on the grass verge and his excuse was he dident see me, so this tells me that a lot of drivers when changing lanes just dont do a life saver(look over there shoulder to see what behind them) before changing lanes, There are a lot of blind spots that you cannot see behind you, when driving a car,on a bike with me it is a normal thing to do a life saver even when taking a right or left hand turn, but when im driving the car I really dont do it as much, this is what i meant by car drivers giving bikes space behind them and make sure they know whats behind them