riding south past clapham common towards clapham south you always get people who drive down the outside lane which is right turn only and then try to force their way into the left lane (effectively jumping the 'queue') and even though I take primary along there and will be travelling as fast as the motor traffic i'd say one in every three journeys i make along there some dickhead will pull alongside from behind me and try to push me into the kerb so he can use my 'gap' to pull in.
difference is they all know exactly what they're doing along there. cnuts.
I loathe that stretch of road for exactly this reason. In fact probably the worst bit is right by Clapham Common station as it looks like a three lane road after the lights. Loads of drivers think "IMMA TAKE THE FAST ONE!" and then realise too late that the lane is right turn only and only a couple of yards long, and the far left lane isn't a lane at all, it's a fucking bus stop with buses merging into the central lane. Cue all the drivers already in the correct lane panicking and trying to drive over you because the dickheads in the right turn lane are trying to drive into them, while double deckers pull out from the left into the path of everybody. And streams of cyclists undertaking, wobbling about, pulling out without looking, right through the middle of it all. It's like the Wacky Races, only not really that funny.
I loathe that stretch of road for exactly this reason. In fact probably the worst bit is right by Clapham Common station as it looks like a three lane road after the lights. Loads of drivers think "IMMA TAKE THE FAST ONE!" and then realise too late that the lane is right turn only and only a couple of yards long, and the far left lane isn't a lane at all, it's a fucking bus stop with buses merging into the central lane. Cue all the drivers already in the correct lane panicking and trying to drive over you because the dickheads in the right turn lane are trying to drive into them, while double deckers pull out from the left into the path of everybody. And streams of cyclists undertaking, wobbling about, pulling out without looking, right through the middle of it all. It's like the Wacky Races, only not really that funny.