I have learnt something today and I hope that my experience will help someone on here. I do hope this does not come across as arrogant it is not my intention.
No matter how much you factor in, no matter how careful you are the other guy can and still get you even if they are not really trying. I came out of this unscathed, I don't even ache at the moment in fact I have just come back in from the garage where I am prepping my other bike ready for use tomorrow.
Was I lucky to not be injured? I don't believe so I believe that I am okay because I had built in sufficient safety margin that even if the nutter got me I would survive.
My riding has developed over the last couple of years, I can ride faster than I did but choose when to do so much more carefully, I can filter fast but choose not to. I can overtake without thinking of it but I choose to consider every overtake very carefully.
Ride with a margin that allows for other peoples errors not just your own and rememeber that any crash you walk away from is a good crash.
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