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Witnessed two commuters make school boy errors last wednesday evening and pay the price on Old street (Shoreditch end). First bloke on an Orange SS patently thought that I was going too slow in front of him (after 10 hours of cycling for a living I am in go slow mode at that time of the day) so he swung to the outside of the lane WITHOUT looking and promptly got rammed by a motorbike coming up the outside, both the cyclist and motorcyclist were ok but i am sure the former was shaken and bruised (he looked pretty shocked that is for sure). To the motorbike riders credit the first thing he said was ''Are you Ok'', if I was in his shoes I would have let rip on the fella.
So after checking it out and letting out an expletive I carried on when I noticed a Shoreditch type (Shaved head, waxed beard and shoes with no socks...ewwww) on a nice looking metallic purple singlespeed with the standard Fixie-wannabe set up (no rear brake), as he sped along on the lights switched to red at the junction of Old street and shoreditch high street when the taxi in front of him came to a halt, of course the sockless gentlemen went into the back as his front brake did not have the stopping distance to be effective in the wet. The cyclist was ok but was clearly bruised, shaken and most tellingly had gone as white as a sheet (Impressive for a white boy). What are the odds man on two commuter fuck ups within 40-50 seconds of each other on the same short stretch of road?? the commuter peloton is a sight to behold sometimes for sheer recklessness and ineptness.