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I think we share a commuting route. I'd be interested to hear what your detour is. I cut through the park in the summer to avoid that bridge, but it's rather Somme-like on wet days, so not really an option for much of the winter.
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it's easier to look at the route on strava. it has it's own problems in that getting into the correct lane outside south wimbledon to go straight on is impossible if you use the segregated cycle lane and dorset road in spite of being 20mph and covered in speed bumps attracts speeders as it's a common rat run and they love to crowd you and overtake at the narrowest points but it's better than the main road.
HatBeard
So i was riding along at past 1am and decided it was safe enough to risk the dual carriageway road over the tram line (which used to be my direct route home before i got pasted by a van a few years back now i take a 10 minute detour usually)
so as i am level with the concrete bollards on my left here (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4085749,-0.1922428,3a,75y,172.32h,52.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqlf1-FuK5ebRr-Z5qtFFfg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 ) a bus zooms past and squeezes me (given there's literally no space for overtaking)
I catch up to the bus on morden high street and as I pass I shout 'nice close pass dickhead' and carry on. I hit the next set of lights and turn left (not a road most buses take) when I hear a roaring engine behind me just as I swing right into the residential street off the main road and the bus screeches past having tried to catch me up
the the driver shouts out the window 'fucking wanker'
so let's tot up the infractions.
we cross paths at a single lane narrow junction where he nearly smashes me into a concrete bollard (anti terrorism concrete to stop cars going on the tram tracks below)
he then stops on the high street, I pass and shout a single phrase at him (nice close pass dickhead)
he rapidly accelerates, turns off the main road and chases me down a side road and (already has the window open) to shout at me "fucking wanker" when literally the only thing instigated by me was calling him a dickhead while he was dropping passengers off .
luckily I was able to gain the upper hand and shout "nice dead end job while everyone else is asleep you loser cunt" as he (very closely) sailed past the back of my bike as I veered into the side street.