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@TurtleRecall
Left work on Friday, got about 50 metres away from the office up Bunhill Row when I spot an obvious bellend turning left out of Dufferin St without bothering to look right at where traffic's coming from, instead looking over his left shoulder at his mate following him 'round the corner on a boris bike.
I get as far to the right as I can to pass him safely, but as I just about get level to him he then decides to lurch right, straight across my path to (presumably) mount the pavement and ride into the graveyard, all this without once looking over his right shoulder in the direction of traffic and (of course) without any kind of signal.
I make some kind of alarmed noise, scrub off a fair bit of speed (had already slowed a bit as he was obviously an unpredictable chopper) and his bar jabs into my leg as I sort of elbow him away.
Managed to stay upright, stopped to call him a fucking prick and a total bellend who shouldn't be on the road with him stammering reasons as to why it wasn't his fault and then I rode home with a funny leg. Still feels weird now, got me right in the quad :'(