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A guy undertook me and turned right across me in a car while I was turning right off a two lane A road a while ago. Pretty lethal and ignorant. I caught him with ease at the next lights and the above happened. Except this time his window came down and he was raging. "What are you looking at?"
"Well I'm looking at you" say I. "How could I miss you, you damn nearly killed me."
"You wanna step to me cunt?"
"And you get another go at killing me? Not really. You're obviously an angry guy, but I doubt you actually set out to kill someone did you? Take it easy man it's busy out here."
I pulled up in the green box in front of him, pretty adrenalinised but trying to hold my own. He pulled his motor right up to my back wheel and gunned his engine. When the lights changed I concentrated on clipping in cleanly and pulling away at my own pace, but I was pretty nervy while he overtook me. All was well. I inevitably caught up to him at the next lights in a line of cars and rode past with a smile. Never saw him again, he might still be in that traffic jam for all I know.