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  • Some might feel this is a deliberate attempt to be controversial. but its not.

    Obviously the driver was a cunt. I feel it necessary to make that clear from the offset.

    But......whats does concern me is the "why the hatred". The guy deserve to be tied to the ground have have the riders one by one cycle over him. But I can fully understand why here in London drivers and pedestrians (not all) are pissed with cyclists. I every day experience the city as a pedestrian and cyclist and previously as a motorcyclist and car driver, oh and the odd van as well.

    As a pedestrian I have kicked a cyclist off his bike for jumping a red light and nearly knocking me over. As I was crossing I dropped something and went to pick it up. The cyclist had passed a van on the right and went straight over, obviously as i had bent down he couldn't see me but thats no excuse for it. As a driver it was annoying sitting at the lights watching cyclists go straight through, but for me it wasn't the end of the world. but I can understand the frustration.

    There are many bad drivers on the roads. there are many bad cyclists on the road as well. there are also bad pedestrians as well. The type who step out from behind a parked van to cross a busy road when theres a pedestrian crossing 20 yards away.

    In the commute this evening I was waiting for someone at a tube station and bizarrely counted the number of cyclists crossing a set of traffic lights. I got to 50 and got bored. 42 jumped the lights.

    I have kicked the door mirrors of a few cars where the drivers have cut me up in cycle lanes and done the old left turn signal later shit. the reaction is always one of shock but no one has decided to have a punch up with me yet. I very cockily reply use it or lose it. When I've had a near dangerous accident because of such careless driving I find easy to justify this attitude. Especially when I don't jump red lights.

    When i come across another cyclist when out Mountain biking it usually ends up in some polite conversation. The number of times when I have stopped at some lights while on my bike in london and another cyclist has pulled up and actually stopped there has been no conversation. I think to date just 2 smiles. Everyone seems interested in racing you. male macho bullshit. There is a time and place for it, don't get me wrong. But cycling in London this last few years hasn't been what I hoped for and it's not solely down to "drivers".

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