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PhilDAS
yesterday's ride in was glorious, so the universe shat out a big shitty dump of a commute for me this morning.
buzzed by 2 cabs on the first road out of morden, giant lorry parked on pavement blocking cycle lane behind south wimbledon tube so had to drop off a foot high kerb into an oncoming lane of traffic to pass, then riding through the big junction at tooting massive skip lorry accelerates past me as i clear the junction and am nearly at the double pinch point outside the lidl/aldi and pulls so far across that if i hadn't come to an almost complete stop to let him past he would have drifted straight over me as there was less than half a foot space between kerb and his wheels where I should have been as he went around the traffic island.
got undertaken by a try hard mtb dickhead in stockwell who was pushing his biggest gear to go about 23mph
then at the junction just before e&c on kennington park road a kingston wheeler knobhead decides the 2sq foot of space in front of my handlebars is obviously his by rights so he pushes through me and the guy 2 foot to my right nearly knocking the other guy over and ends up angled diagonally across my front wheel so i can't pull away until he gets his act together and straightens up after the lights change, congratulations on gaining a single fucking bike length you utter bellchief #acommutewinrarisyou
then when i get to office i was beaten to the only rack visible from my office window by one person so had to try and lock to the other side in a tiny gap between the rack and the side of the giant artic waitrose lorry parked cm's away from kerb doing their morning delivery.