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Called out to a rubbish cyclist for the first time today.
I overtake a line of about 5 cyclists going relatively slowly in the green cyclist lane, giving them a little over a meter's room. But a nodder in the middle of the group gets impatient as well and in order to overtake shifts abruptly to the right without looking over her shoulder. I braked hard so our impact wasn't that bad. But she could have been finished off if she had been hit by the van behind me.
I point this out to her at the next red light. I'm not really angry at her, just using a normal voice. However this talking to got her so angry that she then instantly sped off at the red light, seemingly tried to prove some point to me about being a hardcore cyclists or something by continuing in the opposite lane for almost to blocks. Eventually, she is trapped between a lorry and a bus in Bartholomew road and just avoids being squeezed by jumping onto a traffic island. She then starts screaming out loud, kind of AAARRGGHH type thing.