Originally Posted by Konakazi
In NYC, you would be very hard pressed to find any cyclists ever using signals, and chances are most motorists wouldn't recognize them if they did.
My concern is that I don't want to be a cycling ninja that a car will never see until it's too late.
When I change lanes or merge into traffic or do anything that might cause a conflict with a motorist, in place of the "proper" signals, I just point emphatically to where I'm going. Usually, NYC traffic being what it is, I'm reaching directly into the driver's line of vision. Traffic immediately ahead of me allowing, I try to make eye contact, also.