Driver blocks me from filtering

[wiltshire builders]

I think this was a massive overreaction on your part.
I agree with the above comments that it was more likely he didn't see you.
Filtering isn't a right. If there's no room you can't do it and you tried to force your way through swearing all the way.
What if the caravan rolled back? The black car, frightened by you, lurched forward?
You put yourself in a potentially dangerous situation when there were other options available to save yourself exactly 0 minutes.

We've all done it but the key to safe, progressive riding is knowing when you are at fault and adjusting your riding or attitude accordingly.

[spudgun]

I think filtering is a very grey area. Different people can read the road in different ways, eg,

Technically, you could have been in the wrong - The car has started to move left from the outside lane, (presumably) to the inside lane (without indication), yet you have started an "undertake" move on him, causing him to stop!

But, if the car was moving from the inside lane to the outside lane, he has failed to spot you overtaking him - then it's a different ball game that's more in your favour!

[Trev]

I agree with the above comments that it was more likely he didn't see you.
Filtering isn't a right. If there's no room you can't do it

Agreed, on a bike you often have the benefit of more options being open to you than when in a car but that also requires more, and better, decision making, one of the options is always to wait. I try and use a similar approach to planning an overtake on the open road, if it's not on then wait, another opportunity will come up. Might be different if you're delivering a kidney but not if 5 minutes late for work ; )

I don't commute often on a bike but get about 15k miles a year on two wheels and drive 30k+ miles in a car and see plenty of examples of poor driving (and riding!) and used to get very wound up about some of them. Now I adopt a 'holier than thou' approach and just pity the fool for not having my levels of skill and observation! Works a treat for keeping cool about crap road behaviour even if I know I'm kidding myself big time that I never get it wrong.

As for kicking doors, busting mirrors if I inadvertently block your path one day - very silly idea

[QB1]

Now I adopt a 'holier than thou' approach and just pity the fool for not having my levels of skill and observation! Works a treat for keeping cool about crap road behaviour even if I know I'm kidding myself big time that I never get it wrong.

As for kicking doors, busting mirrors if I inadvertently block your path one day - very silly idea

Ditto

Does that come with age or experience Trev, maybe a bit of both?

I used to get very uptight about situations just like that and, yes, would have been the one cursing, but not any more and to be honest I get most places much quicker and with a lot less stress.

If it were me I'd scrub the YouTube clip and put it down to experience, but if someone had suggested that 10 years ago (if YouTube was around then?) I would have probably told them to sod off too.