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I can confirm this is now a thing, especially on longer stretches of CS7, indeed, there's almost an element of show-boating in many of the perpetrators' actions. As if LDN cycling isn't hairy enough...
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Yes. Just this morning I was on Colebrook Row heading North when some melt came out of a side street no hands, and into my path. Didn't even look to see if there was anything coming from the opposite direction, let alone me.
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Am I getting old or is it getting more cool to ride with no hands even when it's clearly fucking dangerous? Some knob-end riding into Greenwich yesterday lunchtime, I overtook him in a car (giving much wide berth), then I slowed approaching some traffic to see him filter past, still no hands on bars, ped crosses the road through his path, guess what, he can't stop very quickly, wobbles whilst trying to brake and control the bike, just manages to avoid the ped and stay upright. I mutter something under my breath about hoping the prick has learnt his lesson, but no, 100 yards down the road (just approaching the busiest part of the one-way system) he's still filtering down the inside of a bus with no hands. sigh...