Watch out for douchebags trying to clothes line you

This is the reason I will move back to Berlin sooner or later. Of course we have crime there as well, but it's far away from this insane brutality of London and it's limited to certain remote areas instead of spreading over the whole city.

What is wrong with these young guys in London, where is this absolutely non-human, horrible brutality coming from?

It's not spreading over the whole city; these incidents are very very rare. And there are a lot more people cycling now so the opportunities have increased; the number of violent young men (and it is generally men so maybe that is what we should be thinking about?) hasn't necessarily increased; we just notice them more because now they are attacking us, the us in this case being cyclists.