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coppiThat
Yesterday sucked.
About 8.50am, i was heading north of Ludgate Circus. A cyclist blew the red light (by at least 3 or 4 seconds) of the southbound cycle path that crosses traffic opposite the building site (stonecutter street), crossing both lanes of traffic. I was at the front of the queue at the lights (closest to the curb) along with four other bikes / scooters.
As we moved off from green light, the other three bikes to my right narrowly avoided him but i couldn't.
I hit him square on (at about 15-20mph) and went down hard on the right hand side. The bike slid about 20ft, i slid about 10ft. The cyclist flipped over and landed on his head / shoulder (from others have said). He was wearing a backwards cap instead of a helmet but was up again before i was. The first words out of his mouth: "my apple watch is fucked". Worse still, his bike flew across a cycle path and took out another cyclist who was minding his own business.
Fast forward a couple of hours; the cycle paramedic has been and gone with the two cyclists, my bike has been recovered to a dealer (£120 inc vat) and the Police have been. I can't move my right knee so off to hospital.
I got out of hospital about 5.30 yesterday with a severely swollen, but not broken, right knee. On crutches for a week...
I'm not sure I can bounce back from this.
It's not that my confidence on the bike is shot or that i've lost my appetite for riding but i'm fucking sick of other people. I've had years of trouble free biking and suddenly, just this year, someones knocked over my bike and driven off (no cctv), stolen the same bike (no cctv) and now, after getting back on the road at considerable expense, some prick has tried to shave 30 seconds off of his commute and wrecked my brand new bike.
Still waiting for the damage report from the dealer but i estimate at least £3.5k inc labour etc.
FUCK. OTHER. PEOPLE.