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@ExTra
Since we are on the boris bike topic, I saw a guy on a boris bike today, I don't know if he was idiotic or had a death wish - I was sort of cycling alongside him briefly as we we going pass the roundabout at Elephant and Castle passing London College of Communication. As I needed to go to London Bridge, so I took the middle / right lane before turning so I could following the traffic onto Borough High Street , he was doing the same, but the only difference was he wanted to go onto the bus lane onto London Road (towards Southwark tube), so he took a big cut to the left at the last min, with no indication whatsoever, didn't slow down despite a bus was approaching, the bus driver looked shocked and the boris biker gave the driver the gesture of rudeness and paddled on. And if that's not enough, at the same time, a woman on a shopper bike with saddle set far too low on her bike crossing the road in front of me, fair enough as the little green man was on, but she didn't look and carried on crossing the other set of traffic lights with the little red man on, in front of the same bus. I very rarely feel sorry for bus drivers, but today, I felt very sorry for him to have had to deal with 2 mad cyclists, and a credit to the bus driver, he was very patient.