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On the way home from Regents along past Kings Cross - one of the worst bits of riding I have ever seen by someone who is definitely old enough to know better. Old chap on a red and yellow Serotta TT bike with melting seat-stays and Zipp wheels. Mate, if you are completely incapable of stopping for a red light, picking a lane or riding considerately around traffic, you will want to hand over your flash bike.
I was leaving from the Park Square East gate. He runs the red and heads right, which, despite hugging the kerb, causes a few cars to have to swerve to avoid him because DUHHH there shouldn't be anyone emerging into that lane. He then proceeds to cycle through the red lights at the junction of Marylebone and Great Portland Street, which turns out to be rash as there are many, fast moving cars currently drive across his path. He deals with this with great aplomb by simply turning right (so facing in the correct direction for South to North driving traffic on GPst.) and stopping. Bravo.
I'm not interested in hanging around a bellend like that, so I go through the underpass at some pace. However, his inability to stop at red lights means that when I next see him, he is jumping the red at Euston place (Gordon St. junction) and swerve immediately all the way into the right hand lane. Not in the lane, mind you, but on the white lines between the directions of traffic. He proceeds to stay in that position, basically as far over in the right hand side of the road it's possible to be without being smacked in the face by wing-mirrors by the traffic of the other lane, all the way down to Pancras Road at the start of Kings Cross. If you know that stretch of road, you might have noticed that he's been riding in the right turn only lane for about 800 meters, with no intention of turning right.
We eventually diverge when he wobbles through the red light by Kings Cross, and swerves across the entire opposite lane of traffic to make an illegal turn down Belgrove Street.
By this point, I was actually trying to catch him and give him an extremely stern talking too. Unfortunately I didn't fancy my chances making that specific turn...
If, by any chance, you read this, Serotta Rider: You are a fucking pellet. You managed to endanger yourself and terrify basically everyone else on a very long, very busy stretch of road. Stop cycling. You are not good enough at it.