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@Wannabe
I am a motorcyclist and a cyclist, I do the over-the-shoulder-slightly-paranoid-checking thing all the time. I did it on the Grosvenor Road a couple of nights back, just by Dolphin Square, and nearly shat myself - one of those ENORMOUS crane lorries was thundering up behind me, one of the things with 5 foot tall wheels. There was a truck in the outside lane. I felt like Indiana bloody Jones in the temple of doom (but without the bullwhip, stubble, hat, or looted golden idol). I was next to the boarded up garage-type thing, and just swerved over the dropped kerb, and got straight on the brakes. The bastard gave no indication at all he had seen me, and he was going so fast, so close to the kerb, I'd have been squished flat. I was shaking all the way home. Utter, utter wanker.
I don't undertake lorries at lights unless I know the light phases, and know I have time to get well out in front.
So so glad this rider was ok.