I would like to agree with you. But we were pretty close to the car, there was no way he didn't see us. No way. He could have pulled out in front of the car. He could have waited until we passed. There wasn't a wave of "ooops, I'm an idiot" or anything. He simply rode between the car and us until the car turned, then he rode in front of us for a while until he turned off.
Thsi was a deliberate act. At first, I thought maybe he thought we were some riders in his group and he was waiting for them and pulled in front of us thinking we were them. But when I saww him in Petaluma, he was alone. He parked in Petaluma and went in a store or something. I almost stopped to see what his problem was, but the guy even looked like an asshole (he had this sourpuss look on his face), so I figured the fact that he had to live with himself was probably punishment enough.
But to clarify: He was not a newbie.
I am not a newbie.
It was deliberate.