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I think they meant (or maybe it's just what I mean) if someone is cycling like a dick, let them go ahead. Put a foot on the kerb for 15 seconds until they're gone and join the next wave. I do this when I'm stuck in a group with some awful cyclist. They aren't going to be reasoned with and will continue to ruin your ride. We have to be smarter than the choppers.
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unless you've worded this poorly are you implying I didn't give him space and was going too fast?
umm where? lets go to the tape...
00:01 - I was travelling at a speed slow enough to brake when he pulled out on me with no indication at the start of the video. I then sit back until we reach the lights where he just veers across my wheel again, i'm going slowly enough to anticipate and stop in time.
00:31 I sit back and let him veer across my wheels twice then I sit 2 bike lengths behind him the whole way along the seg bike lane even though he's positioned to turn left until he veers across again at the last minute overtaking only when the road widens to 2 lanes with no traffic to my right.
1:26 at the next set of lights he pushes past on the far right of the lane about 5 seconds after I stop, he then immediately drifts left straight into the group of cyclists all trying to go straight on. again I wait for him to move before overtaking as he's moving slowly and the lights had changed while crossing and I wanted to clear the junction.
1:38 at e&c I'm rolling to a stop and he comes up from behind me on the left and positions himself into my path, the lights change and I let him pull away and across from l-r again with plenty of room.
2:04 next set of lights I'm literally at the front of the pack, I have to wait a split hair for a turning van so he accelerates past and immediately pulls in front of me, again I sit back and let him do his thing all the way through to southwark bridge where I see him undertaking not one but two bikes.
fuck me what an inconsiderate speed freak I am.