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@HatBeard
this morning going through the surrey quays one way system at this bit with myself and 5 other cyclists having just followed a bus through the lights in the bus lane.
the bus was pretty much where the cones are indicating right to merge with a line of slowly moving traffic in the right hand lane. because of the buses angled road positioning there was no traffic at all in the left hand lane but until he moves another half a foot you couldn't get between him and the kerb
so what do all five of the other cyclists do, they ride around him on the right, into the half a car length he's already began merging into then cut back across the front of him and then back onto the left of the queue of traffic. I was waiting for the gap to widen which took about 5 seconds, 4 of those were because the bus had to brake to stop squishing the impatient idiots trying to push round him.
in spite of being held up when the bus couldn't move forward without squashing them when he did move I was already back on the rear wheel of their little pillockton so they risked all that to save themselves about 3 seconds.