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Cycling home tonight I was waiting at some lights with another cyclist just to my right. As the lights went green a bloke on a moderately flash road bike split the gap between us at pace with only a couple of inches gap on each side. I mean sufficient pace that if either of us had wobbled as we set off he would have had all three of us onto the tarmac. I pulled away after him with a fair mind to give him a stern talking to when, after about 200 yards his pedal fell off into the gutter. I momentarily slowed thinking about picking it up and returning it to him with a few choice comments, but by the time I'd thought about it I was too far past to make it feasible. In the end I was so amused by has obvious bafflement at repeatedly trying to put his foot on his now-absent pedal I thought I'd just leave him to it.