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Well I was finally taken out by one of my fellow commuters this morning. Heading north into Russell Square from Southampton Row I spot a gaggle of southbound commuters waiting to turn right into the square and I cover my brakes just in case like. I'm riding about 15mph in primary and it's a nice sunny morning.
A car overtakes me just before I enter the junction and a tiny gap opens that dickhead number 1 on an MTB takes as a cue to try to cross in front of me, and I have to brake hard and swerve right to avoid his rear wheel.
I then find that the other 7-8 cyclists took dickhead number 1's move as a sign that the junction was clear and had followed him without even looking for themselves and I barrel right into the middle of them, swerving left and braking I come to a halt with front wheel colliding and simultananeous shoulder checking of a woman on a fucking pink Pashley.
Managed to unclip and get my foot on the floor before falling off and was so angry I nearly threw my bike across the road. She's not helping by saying "I was looking where I'm going you know" as I check myself and the bike over for damage.
She then realises she was completely at fault and starts apologising profusely but I'm so angry I know that if I speak to her I will say very bad things so I just ignore her and get back on the bike.