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Yesterday I was chatting to a guy who'd just been hit by a car on TCR (he was fine, just a bit pissed off), cycling two abreast up Hampstead Road while we discussed how most drivers were bastards and how a lot of cyclists were really unfriendly. We stopped at some lights and this nodder comes to a squeaking halt behind me. "Do you have any idea of how unsafe your riding is?" he says to me. I look a bit confused. Apparently I'm unsafe because a) I'd been riding about a metre out into the road (before I'd been chatting to the guy) and then b) I'd ridden two abreast on a fairly wide bit of road. I tried to point out that this was safer than riding in the gutter, but then the lights changed and all the nodders got furious with me for holding them up for a couple of seconds ("this is the final straw!!" one of them said), so I shouted "WELL WHY DON'T YOU ALL GO FUCK YOURSELVES THEN" which I can't say I'm massively proud of. They jumped the next red light.