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@CrazyJames
Fingers crossed all involved are ok, it sounds like the cyclist might have got lucky and the motorcyclist took the brunt of it, I hope everyone made it out of this alive.
For those of you who are riding this route, be very careful, its extremely easy to get caught out by cars racing to be "the one in front" when the lanes filter down, I ride this route a lot as I live nearby and i've seen many cyclists get themselves into some pretty dangerous situations by either being too timid and not forcing vehicles to give them space, or just from not anticipating the traffic very well.
For this part of London Bridge I find the best approach is either a flat out sprint across the bridge to try and outrun traffic behind you so you have plenty of room to move around once you get to the bottleneck, then when you get into the section where it filters, plant yourself in the middle of the lane/lanes so vehicles cannot barge past you.
Alternatively if you keep your wits about you you can flick into the left turn only lane before hand where its a single lane instead of the much sketchier "bottleneck" on the right hand side (heading towards Bishopsgate over the Bridge), and then filter back into the 2 lane section heading towards Bishopsgate instead of embankment (if you are heading in that direction).
Or the Brave/stupid/safer option depending on which way you look at it, is to bunnyhop the traffic island in the middle and roll comfortably up between both lanes without being disturbed by traffic.