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@beach
Coming home tonight, at York Way outside the guardian building. I was in the right hand lane going straight on. At the lights changed I moved on, then looking over my shoulder to merge to the left. There is a black Astra in the space coming towards me, I'm looking and signalling left, saying "really?" to myself. He then drops back and speeds past.
At the next junction he's slowing waiting for me. As I draw level he's asking "Whats that you said mate? What you mumbling?". Once I tell him, he's like "Yeah really mate." And launches into a rant about how I should stay in the cycle lane where I belong, how he's pissed off as he's had a bad day. He doesn't need this crap on his way home.
As I try to point out that there is no cycle lane at that section and that I was in the right lane. He tells me how he "Doesn't give a fck" and that he'll "knock me out". At this point I say fair enough as I notice his hand is on the door handle and I don't really want to get into a fight.
As the lights change I can hear him saying to his mate in the car how he "doesn't give a fck". I wait for him to drive off (he doesn't notice the light is green straight away), before trying to make a note of his number plate.
I'm fairly sure I'm not in the wrong here with my use of the lanes, but I've not checked the highway code yet. I also don't think I've got enough to report it to the police, which is annoying.