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@dooks
someone shouting "TWWWAAAATTT!" at me last night on upper street.
rode home from swimming on the gf's singlespeed. i'd stopped in at the buffalo bar to catch the end of a friend's gig and was then pottering the 150 yards up upper street back to my flat. it's literally hardly worth crossing the road to join traffic for as by the time you've waited for a gap in traffic and cycled for 10 seconds you need to stop and wait for another gap to turn right again.
anyway, i'd decided i was going to do it properly rather than creep along the pavement or in the gutter so i was loitering in the empty bus lane doing 1mph in the wrong direction waiting for a gap in traffic to swing across to the other side of the road. i was creeping upstream right by the kerb waiting and a couple of cars to pass. the last piece of oncoming traffic before i could swing out to the other lane was a very fast moving roadie.... i know that technically i was in the wrong and all but it's a big wide two way street with bus lanes on both sides. as i waited for him to pass he swerved right over to where i was pootling along in the gutter and spat "TWWWAAATTT!" right in my face.
so thanks for that mystery cyclist.