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I don't think anything has ever made me more concerned about going out on my bike than this insight into the fucking vacuum that some people clearly keep in their heads! I guess you always know that there are pricks driving around, but to see that so many of them are genuinely, consciously, antagonistic and aggressive towards cyclists is pretty eye-opening... someone once told me that you have to cycle in London as if everyone in a car is trying to kill you (meaning leave plenty of space for unexpected manoeuvres, sudden braking etc....) I didn't think that they actually were...