Your kind of assuming a lot here aintcha. Not that it's any of your business but, i've been riding the roads of Ireland and the Uk for 30 years or so, and while i'm obviously not as gifted as our friend in the tunnel, i know dangerous riding when i see it. No matter how talented you are, your always only one moment away from some moron in a car pulling into your space without looking. If the traffic was lighter it would have been fine, but it was hectic and cars and vans were doing the old death race 2000 bit. We're constantly being told to ride defensively in traffic conditions, not to be doing a charlie boorman down some african dirt road.