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On Theobalds Road today, two guys pretty much hugging the curb. A bus just behind them, overtaking them safely, more than a metre to their right. I'm behind the bus, following it's rear left corner (but leaving enough space to deal with what was about to happen).
The second guy, who is wearing headphones, suddenly dives out from curb, without so much as as look behind, right in front of the bus, which had just reached his back wheel.
Bus does an emergency stop, the cyclist is completely oblivious to what just happened. I stop safely, and then carry on behind the bus. As I go past the cyclist I look round, and he just has no idea how close to serious injury he was.
We reach some red lights, and the bus, now well ahead of the cyclists, stops in the left lane, with about a foot between it and the curb. I head to the right lane, and stop in front. As the lights go green, the bus starts moving, but suddenly stops again, toots it's horn, and the same cyclist comes scraping out of the left side of the bus.
He looks at me, in a sort of "what just happened" look, I give him a disapproving look, and then shout "go around the bus" and signal he should have gone round. He still looks bewildered, and I head off.