I'm riding in primary position, a man on a boris bike is in front of me, riding in secondary and a bin lorry is in front of him.
The bin lorry begins to indicate left (a bit late, if you ask me) and begins turning into the road on the left. Man on the boris bike, inconvenienced, then immediately pulls out into the middle of the road, to pass the bin lorry on his right. He didn't check behind him before doing this, and unfortunately, as I was in primary and had seen the lorry's movements from a further distance, this is where I was also riding.
We both managed to brake so that a collision didn't happen but it came extremely close. I told him to watch where he was riding and to use his eyes. He proceeded to call me every swear word I can think of.
Shortly after, both going in the same direction, and him still shouting obscenities, we come across a flashing amber light. There was a pedestrian crossing and naturally I stopped to let the ped cross, meanwhile he's behind me shouting at me to go on. I asked him whether he knew the rules of the road.
This agitated him so he proceeded to tell me that he cycles 'thousands more miles a year' than me. I asked him, if that was so, then why didn't he know the rules of the road. He continued to litter his delightful speech with more profanities. I'm glad to say that during the heated exchange, I never once stooped to his level and kept my language PG-rated. I told him it wasn't very mature of him to use so many swear words. He didn't like that.
He stated that it was me in the wrong because I should have known that he was going to pull out and acted accordingly. I told him that I disagreed, that at the speed and position of my riding, that wasn't possible and in any case, he should've slowed down and checked before moving out into the middle of the road. At the next set of traffic lights, I let him go ahead and told him to 'have a good day'.
Polar opposite experience from yesterday where I had a delightful cyclist stop to ask me if I needed help as I was changing a puncture. He went as far as offering to come back to his where I could use his track pump. Just goes to show that at the end of the day, we're all cyclists and we're all people. And in all walks of life, sometimes there are people who are great, kind and friendly, and sometimes there are people who are just daffodils.
. because i need the cash 
happy with that!
