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I don't think this really is bad cycling, might just be etiquette I don't understand. I took my Holdsworth out for a spin round Regents Park earlier this afternoon, and at one point a properly kitted out cyclist on a nice flashy carbon machine started riding right on my bike wheel, uncomfortably so. There was no traffic either way, so he could have overtaken, but I think he was just trying to use my not insignificant body as a windbreak. While he was doing this though, he kept pedalling half a turn backwards, making what sounded like very deliberate intimidating freewheel ticking noises.
The way it came across was like when you're driving (sorry) and someone comes too close and then starts flashing their lights. Am I reading far too much into this, was he being an arse or is this some kind of gesture I'm not au fait enough to recognise?
Much more clear was the dickhead with an afro and a Brompton on Thornhill Road the other day, giving shit to anyone overtaking him in a really sarcastic way. The kind of bellend who overtakes you at every red light and then gives you mock congratulations when you easily catch up with him again afterwards. WAC.