Treat them all like idiots, a lot of the time you'll be right.
Agreed.
Had that same thing happen to me on a roundabout, with a two lane entrance to it. Car in the lane closest stopped, woman in the car in the other lane just pulled straight out and I went into the side of her. Hurt lots, picked myself up, picked bike up, swore at her lots, then went on my way. I was indicating. Didn't help.
Houns, hope you make a good recovery, perhaps tyou could send the driver a leaflet from SPECSAVERS, they have special offers on glasses.
What injuries did you sustain.
Olly glad you made a recovery as well.
ill see if i can find any "melon head" photos some time
Olly - did you find those other photos? I want to see your melon head. 
The mondeo reaches the roundabout and decides to accelerate ahead of the car to its left, which had already entered the roundabout! i believe the Mondeo drivers attention was completely focused on getting around the r/bout ahead of the other car and didn't even see cyclist until it was too late.
I thought that myself - if he hadn't hit the cyclist, he'd have hit the Audi. A lot of old gimmers simply shouldn't be driving without some serious re-education in the rules of roundabouts.
im looking for them, i want to stick them on the "cow shit on the road" thread for Takemada 
So like I said at the start, too many muppets don't know how to use a roundabout.
Indeed, but perhaps you didn't understand the intent of my post . . . lying in a hospital bed waving (if you still can) a copy of the highway code is completely irrelevant . . . learn to cycle ( and for that matter drive) defensively and while you may have to deal with the ineptitude of the general motorist you will still be able to rant about it down the pub, rather than from your wheelchair . . .
Anyways . . . while I have a lot of support for the biker . . . he needs to learn how to stay alive in the real world . . . while we're at it I'd also introduce mandatory driving licence re-tests every 5 years . . . get all the incompetent biffers off the roads and make them safer for everybody . . .
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True Fergusd but I say you need both, you need experience like you say and knowledge.
agree with both of you, but I'd say that knowledge works best when everyone else also has knowledge. Experience is driving / riding to make allowance for the fact that not everyone does.
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