Originally Posted by noisebeam
Placed between center and right taillight of car in front of me. I was going to make a right turn. Two cars were stopped ahead of me.
To the right of center is too far to the right in this situation for precisely the reason all this happened... you are not visible to those looking ahead. Like you said, it looked like a gap. You guys were stopped. There is no reason not to be right behind the LEFT tailight of the car in front of you in this situation, or maybe a foot to the right of it, at most. That's where a motorcyclists should be positioned in this situation, and you too, for the same reasons.