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@t_slates
Nasty moment today but reading what happened to lynchman makes this seem very very minor. All the best to lynchman and very very sorry to hear that a fellow cyclist is in a bad state. Riding at a high pace past the old vic in waterloo, green light so didnt slow down at all going through the crossing. a black merc waiting to turn right facing towards me was slowly edging out and I thought 'surely he's not going to turn,' anyway, he did and I got a away lightly by unclipping slamming arm and front wheel on boot and then skidding across the crossing still upright gradually wearing down my cleats till I got to the kerb.
Looked behind and driver had gone, couple if people checked if I was ok, which was kind.
Lessons: keep your wits about you, if I hadn't seen him or suspected he was coming out and in turn slowed down as much as I could when he did, I'd be picking bits of his passenger door window out of myself and would have written off the front end of my bike.
And don't ride through central London fast.