Been on the other side of this situation, in a car. Where I live there's a T junction which has a lot of parked car on the right hand side, blocking your view to pull out. You can ease out a bit but go too far and any vehicle coming along the main carriageway would be forced into the other lane.
So there's only one technique that works. Ease out as far as possible, then look and punch it. So as I did this I see the lights of a scooter just coming out of the blind area. So I punched it harder, the wheels spun and i didn't go anywhere. Anyway no major drama other than an irritated scrote on a scooter who proceeded to follow me 6 inches from my bumper for the next mile or so.
Other than not losing traction, not sure what else I could do to avoid that situation.
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Originally Posted by Dave20046
Cheers, although I know it was one of those moment where if he hadn't have done that I would have kicked myself for being hesitant.
The second was going down quite a narrow village road parked cars on the right completely blind of what's going on on the left until you're on top of it because of buildings (no pavement). If I didn't know the road and the idiots in the area I probably would have took it 25-30mph but did 15-20mph as soon as I broke the bend of the corner to see the road ahead a car shot out of a restaurant carpark on the left. I slowed to a stop shaking my head and he gave me the 'sorry I almost broke you neck' wave and tootled on his way.
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