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@Multi_Grooves
Calling myself out (I think)
Double altercation:
Riding down Southwark Street over a junction (great Suffolk I think) about a couple of meters away from it heading towards Blackfriars when a motorcylist undertakes me from such an improbable angle that he must have dived into the cycle lane to do it and gave me a bit of a fright TBH. I couldn't get my head around it as there was enough space on my right not to have pulled such a dick move. I somehow catch up and and give him the sarcastic appluase. His whole line is that I should be riding in the gutter.
"What?! even over a junction I'm not turning into??"
"Yeah!"
It's really disappointing to hear this stupidity from motorcyclists.
Number 2:
I'm at the lights North side of Blackfriars looking to turn left down to the embankment with a sole cyclist sitting further left than Scargill. As I've started doing, I tell him I'm turning left. He says I should be behind him.
"No fam. If you're going straight ahead you should be further over to the right in the cycle lane, if not, in front of the next lane in the middle of the cycle box"
He points at the paint, "look at where they've painted it. Im in the right place."
I ask "how much real thought and cyclist consideration do you think went into the the paint? They've given NO give way priority to cyclists on the junction."
He's just not having it. According to his blinkered view point all cyclists, in theory, would have to queue in single file along this dangerous stretch, when in reality there's enough space to at least go two abreast dependent on those going left and those going straight ahead (and possibly right). I switch off and zone out. Lights go green and I go about making my turn. I get t-boned by him.
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How was I viewed? Would I have been taken more seriously? Would I have been quicker, had I not been on a London hire bike today?