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@HatBeard
as I was waiting to pull out onto the E&C roundabout this morning coming north from kennington I saw a guy on a brompton ride up the outside of all 4 lanes to get to the front of the waiting traffic and then sharply turn left 45 degrees straight across the front bumper of a transit van waiting to pull out just as a gap on the roundabout large opened up and the van driver was lifting off the clutch.
how he didn't go under the transit I do not know. all i can say is it's probably luck that the van driver had some coffee before leaving the house and was nice and alert as he had literally a second to react otherwise he would have just accelerated over him.