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As I returned tired to Nairobi yesterday near the end of a three hour ride in the hills, I came past "Junction" - one of Nairobi's soulless mall complexes. I remembered being warned that Junction traffic is just plain nasty. Right on queue, a battered Toyota Corolla overtook me, immediately hit the brakes and then indicated as it took a left turn right across me. A textbook "left hook" maneuver. I was on a mountain bike with disc brakes so managed to lock up the rear wheel as I yelled "FUCKING HELL", and had a shit-my-pants skid.
The most annoying part was that the layabouts on the side of the road were saying "Ey mzungu, the car was overtaking you. You have to be careful". I tried to explain that it was a left hook, but my Swahili is rubbish and their English wasn't great, so they just nodded and said "You must be more careful." Argh. Noone realised that it was shitty driving. Apparently it's near impossible to fail a driving test in Kenya, and many drivers just pay their examiner the £30 bribe for the rubber stamp.