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I witnessed one profound incident of stupidity this morning, and another of far less magnitude, both from fixed gear riders.
One was the dude on a Genesis flyer, trying to undertake a HGV as it turned left into Golden Lane from Clerkenwell Road. When he realised that the lorry was blocking his path onwards and he was about to get crushed, he hopped on the pavement then tried to beat the lorry round the corner, and whizzed in front of it about 2 metres into Golden Lane. In light of recent events.... cheesus, I don't know, the lorry was absolutely not at fault - on the basis of the cyclist's behaviour, we need a campaign to stop morons from breeding.
The other minor incident was a dude on a grey bike/blue rims who insisted on tailing me round Old St roundabout about 9 inches from my back wheel. If I had skip-stopped (oh thank you new light gearing for making this so much easier!), you would have faceplanted.
I am dismayed. [/rant]