Originally posted by LittleBigMan
I don't find this necessary. In fact, I would consider it dangerous to ride alongside another vehicle in an intersection, intentionally.
A "blocker" may not know they are being used as such. Cooperation with motorists is crucial at all times, and a motorist who is unaware of my presence cannot cooperate with me.
I prefer to act precisely as I do in my car. First come, first serve. Yield if some goofball takes my turn.
Again, if I follow the same rules, motorists can read my intentions. The biggest problem I have a 4-way stops is motorists who want me to go ahead of my turn. I wave them through.
True this can be dangerous. But I make the driver very aware of of the fact that I am there. And I do not use the car as a blocker if it is turning right. If it is going straight or turning left I do. When I use a car as a blocker it is always a car that comes up from behind me, so the driver already knows I am there and I allow the driver to pull up along my left side. To where the driver and I are even at the intersection. But again if the driver is turning right I do not attempt to use him or her as a blocker. Never had a problem with this so far. The intersections I do this at are in residental areas where the speed is 25 mph.
Now at a intersection with lights if it is green I of course proceed through but in the middle of the lane so a car can not zoom up on my right side to make a right turn and hit me in the process. I think this is called the right hook. And if the light is red I stop in the middle of the lane so a car can not get beside me, again to make the right hook turn cause they are in a hurry and do not want 5 seconds added to their commute time. This is part of my defensive riding.
I've never had a problem with cars turning left, even if it is from a cross street onto the street I am riding and going straight through on. Up until I developed my defensive riding style I always had problems with drivers making the right hook turns.