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Often, when I ride my bike, I ride it to work where I get into a van and roll around the streets of London for eight hours. Now I like to think that I am a particularly dilligent driver, particularly in regard to cyclists, certainly more so than most.
My concentration sometimes lapses, this is because I am a human. Sometimes I piss off a rider, and that pisses me off, but more importantly slaps me round the face. Sometimes that rider will then call me a wanker. I understand his point of view but at that very moment all I want to do is smash his face in. It's kind of a reflex response to being humiliated in a manner which one cannot respond to.
These days I don't gesticulate at drivers when I'm riding. They're probably just like me.