I really hate to break it to you (and Andy) but both you and he are wrong. If you want to test the valitity of a hypothesis extrapolate out to the ridiculous extreme... would you... could you, access the pedestrian walk button riding a tandem? A touring bike with loaded front and rear panniers? Pulling a loaded trailer? You can't have it both ways. If you are already in the road, the best practice would be to stay there. And it would NEVER be permissible to salmon against traffic in the pedestrian crosswalk for the opposite side of the street. ???What? What possible benefit could there be to that? SMH. How these concepts manage to make sense to somebody and get adopted as a valid way to do things is really beyond my ken. And wth is a 'strong' hand signal? The only strong hand signal I know of conveys nothing about directional or procedural intent and only ones personal emotional state in the moment. Effective, maybe... efficient? I think not.

H

P.S. Here's how to do it right: Either, pull to the front as you do, and take the first opportunity to pull through that is offered. I mean... by filtering to the front isn't that what you wanted, that's what drivers will assume... in most civilized places anyway. OR, stop a car length short of the intersection, to make it clear to right turning traffic that you are not turning right and want them to go ahead and be on their merry way.