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The daily race up Alpe d'Southwark Bridge almost got nasty today.
A roadie had jumped the lights at the bottom of the hill, but by the time a few of us caught him up he was going at a relatively slow pace in the middle of the segregated cycle lane on the bridge itself. Fine by me - happy to sit back and admire the view of the City.
Not so fine by the GoPro-wearing chap behind me, who decided there was enough space to overtake both me and the roadie within the confines of the cycle lane - enforced by the foot-high concrete barrier separating us from the traffic. There wasn't.
I tucked in to let him past, and even when his "Excuse me!" didn't shift the roadie to the left he decided to try his luck anyway - and only barely stayed upright as he scraped his pedal on the barrier. Not pretty.
Of course, when we get to the bottom of the hill on the far side, our roadie friend jumps the lights again - and GoPro man points this out to me in a sort of "Can you believe it?" sort of tone.
Yes mate, but you just filmed yourself attempting an overtaking move that there definitely wasn't room for and almost making a complete pig's ear of it.
Wonder if I'll see myself on YouTube in the near future...