To think this motorcyclist was in the wrong?

[Celestia26]

OK I'm second guessing myself after a near miss this morning on the road with a motorbike and want to know if I was in the right or not?

I was stopped at a roundabout in the left hand lane waiting to go straight ahead (2nd exit) when a group of about 5 motorbikes pull up behind me. One of them pulls up on my right so that he is sitting right inbetween the left and right hand lane.
Once there is a safe gap I pull forward to go across the roundabout, the motorbike does too, except that he cuts across me to take the first exit, he has to swerve to go around me as I nearly hit him.
Who is in the right? I was in the correct lane going straight across, and I had got there first so really he should be behind me, not to my side. Is that right? It looked like he expected me to take the first exit too, but I wasn't indicating so not sure why he would think this. Also he wouldn't have been able to see my indicators anyway as he was on my right hand side.
I'm second guessing what I did now, but not sure what I should have done differently. Was he totally in the wrong?

He must have thought he could get off the line faster than you, then messed that up. In my younger, invincible feeling days, it's going to be something I've done I'm sure.

Biker was in the wrong, and was also being silly, because it's him that would come off worse.

Trinity, no that wasn't for you, couldn't work out how to tag the user but it was for the first person who replied saying that motorcycles are allowed to filter.

If the left hand lane was the correct lane for your exit, he was in the wrong. He should have stayed behind you, or at the very least, gone to the left of you for the first exit.
HWBU, YWNBU.

Trinity, no that wasn't for you, couldn't work out how to tag the user but it was for the first person who replied saying that motorcycles are allowed to filter.

No worries

This happened to me once. Slammed on brakes but still bumped into his leg. I felt awful.

Insurance companies found him to be in the wrong.

Motorcyclist was in the wrong, BUT...

We would all do well to drive defensively of motorbikes and cycles. They're just as prone to the occasional human error as the rest of us on the roads, and yet when they do it they are far more vulnerable.

I try to drive expecting erratic behaviour from bikes and motorbikes, because at the end of the day I don't want to be scraping one off my bonnet, even if it wasn't my fault how they got there!

Not saying you weren't driving defensively OP; you didn't hit them, after all. I just wouldn't be surprised by this sort of thing in the slightest.

Good reply RatRolyPoly. Certainly something I will do in the future. Thanks.

what was op supposed to do guess he was going to go left?

that isnt her problem that hes more vulnerable rat

ive had ti done to me too op shook me up hope youre ok

Also, looking to get a dash cam, witnessed alot of stupid driving recently including being reversed into when stationary. You just can't trust people to drive correctly.

Thanks Gabsalot, I'm OK, but missed him by millimetres so it could have been very bad. A bit shaken by it.

A heart in mouth moment - he was in the wrong and he was lucky not to end up on the ground.

Once was turning left at traffic lights (t junction) about 9pm in winter (so dark) my light changes to green and I go to find 2 cycles on the wrong side of the road, so coming straight for me overtaking the traffic waiting at the red lights, no reflective gear or lights. How I missed them I'll never know. Complete idiot's.

Sorry I was turning right not left.