out of interest, whats the problem with overtaking both of you? If he thought you weren’t going to overtake, doing so where there is plenty of visibility seems like a reasonable thing to do?
Just seen this….good question.
I was clearly waiting to overtake the cyclist. We were just coming around a left hand bend that was opening (over a very slight crest too). I had only just got enough visibility to see that it was indeed clear to go and glanced in my wing mirror to check it was clear from behind.
He’d already started his overtaking manoeuvre and was almost alongside me – so, at the time he initiated the overtake there was no way he could have seen whether it was safe or not – especially given that my position on the road to get an ‘earliest’ view would have hindered his line of vision & he would have been sitting slightly lower in his car, which wouldn’t have helped.
I did wonder if he had got the jump on me in terms of visibility and assessing how clear it was, but I don’t see how he could have – although I am open to be corrected on how this might be possible.
I think he was just being impatient.