Buzz·Posted on 13 Jul 201516 Deeply Irritating Struggles Every London Cyclist Will Know"Sorry mate, I didn't see you."by Tom ChiversBuzzFeed Staff, UKLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. The dodging and weaving at Elephant & Castle roundabout. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 2. The amazingly well-thought-out cycle lanes. View this photo on Instagram 3. The lovely, sensible cycle lanes. The Alternative DfT @AlternativeDfT Cycle route, UK-style. I'd say this has been well and truly cycle-proofed: 12:03 PM - 14 Oct 2013 Reply Retweet Favorite "In BMX Bandits they were always cycling up and down stairs." 4. Or rather, the cycle lanes-slash-obstacle courses. cyclistsinthecity @citycyclists Here's the dreadful addition to @lambeth_council bike route 3 at 6:15 this morning. Imagine this at rush hour. Mad 07:00 AM - 05 Nov 2013 Reply Retweet Favorite 5. The people who haven't quite worked out what those cycle lanes are for. Ernestas J Jegorovas @GreenasErnestas Not sure if I should be thankful for the notice or... #cyclepathway #cycling #londoncycling #northlondon 08:26 PM - 02 Jun 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite Guys, you can tell they're not pavement, you see, because they're a different colour. 6. The polite fellow road users. View this vine on Vine vine.co / Via youtube.com No, actually I'm allowed to cycle more than an inch from the kerb, but thank you for your input, angry man. 7. The idiots who sit in those boxes for cyclists by traffic lights. Glee @banditcab Police failure to stop at cycle box . One rule for us on for them . 07:03 AM - 18 May 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite It's illegal, guys. 8. No, really. Get out of the cycle stop box. It's dangerous. Jeremy Vine @theJeremyVine Classic danger. The left-turning tipper truck that sits in the cycle box. #LondonCycling 09:53 AM - 18 May 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite People die this way. 9. The guy in a suit wobbling along on a Boris bike looking like he's never cycled before in his life. 10. Guys like this giving the rest of us a bad name. Geoff Silva @SilvaGeoff "@theJeremyVine: Seven law-abiding cyclists alongside me at this red light. One tosser. #LondonCycling " 08:59 AM - 18 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite 11. But most of all, the drivers. View this vine on Vine vine.co / Via youtube.com 12. The drivers hurtling through red lights at speed. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 13. The feeling that for some reason they can never see you. View this vine on Vine vine.co / Via vine.co "I've got a fucking dayglo top on. I am literally high visibility." 14. Seriously. Get your eyes checked, motorists of Britain. View this vine on Vine vine.co There is a thing called "inattentional blindness": essentially, car drivers are looking out for other cars, and so they literally don't see motorcyclists and cyclists even when they're looking at them. This is why the more cyclists there are on the roads, the safer cycling gets. 15. Stop saying "sorry mate, I didn't see you." Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 16. But every cyclist knows it's all worth it for the sweet, sweet feeling of smugness when you glide past a line of stationary traffic on a hot day. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF