Only you know. What it comes down to is how much of a swerve did he do? Did you anticipate it? Were you off-balance when the wheels hit? Did you have time to brake, or was it too sudden?

Granted, the times where I've hit & stayed up were small touches. We were close riding in a group, but they were still small. One was when he stood up and his wheel came back. Another when we both just had a little movement and I was already over-lapped.

He was pretty committed to the turn. We were heading down the access road at a good clip and I think he was on auto-pilot. For a long time we (cyclists along this route) were turning right, into a parking lot to bypass the single-lane construction plagued cloverleaf access road but a few weeks ago workers completed an additional lane on the access road and subsequently dumped mountains of mud into the parking lot. My friend hadn't been on the route since it changed - it's totally my bad for assuming that just because the rest of the group knew, he knew. In retrospect I should have been more cautious when we were approaching this part of the road.

It happened really fast (we were cruising along at about 20mph and he slowed and turned - bam) and that's probably a good thing. I was relaxed when it happened. All things considered it could have been an ugly little spill but wasn't, I even managed to stay somewhat upright. I'm assuming partly because I was relaxed when it happened?