The public seem to be learning

I got called a 'Fucking Idiot' by a MTB nodder the other day. Coming up to a red light in the middle(ish) of the lane I slowed up moving into the green cyclist bit and drifted in towards the curb slowly as I passed the stop line... then just out of the corner of my eye I saw a MTBer screaming to a halt almost running into the back of me. I didn't see him at all and did drift into his path, but I kinda don't think I should have to look out for people trying to undertake me at speed to RLJ across a busy junction. There is no doubt I am a fucking idot sometimes but that time I don't really think I was in the wrong, or was I?

I got exactly the same on the approach to the top of Waterloo Bridge, coming across that pavement bit from Covent Garden. You leave the pavement on a green light, cross the road and meet a red at the top of the bridge about thirty yards from where you started. So I get a green, I take off fastest, push across the road, then stop pedalling and cruise up to the lights to stop (cos I is good like dat). Suddenly a voice over my shoulder says "In a daze are we..?" I look to my left and see a 40-odd Kensington housewife on a Pashley or similar, cravatte, perfect hair, no helmet. I look confused, so she repeats herself, "In a bit of a daze were we..?" with a patronising half-smile. So, still a bit confused about what she meant, I calmly said, "No. I was cruising up to a red light, moving over to the left - as you should do - and wasn't expecting anybody to be undertaking me on the inside in the last twenty feet before the stop line." The smug look dropped off her face, just as the lights went green, so I shot off and that was that.

Undertaking people approaching reds is dumb. End of. If you're going to RLJ, you know you have to be on the OUTside.