Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

What if you have a beer * and* a cig?

Lips 2 da floor.

If I was good at computer magics I'd add a lazer firing from his finger when he points.

Two great videos up there :)

What if you have a beer * and* a cig?

Tweed ride >>>>>

...and people on the phone on a rural cycle path - are those things even illegal?

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q604.htm?letter=C

Using a hand held mobile phone whilst cycling is not illegal per se, however, you could commit an offence of careless riding or riding without due care and consideration. It is also not advisable for the obvious safety reasons.

For those people using electrically assisted pedal cycles it depends on the cycle itself as to whether it is illegal or not. A lot of new vehicles are being marketed as electrically assisted pedal cycles but are, in fact, classed as motor vehicles so using a hand held mobile phone whilst riding one of these would be illegal.

Hahahaha The guy over the bars is hilarious. The rest is just the camera man forgetting its a bicycle. If he wants to police people then he needs to change jobs. His blood pressure would sky rocket in London. He'd lose his voice or get sworn at or worse in London.

I'm spotting people on the wrong end of the road on the painted strip AKA the pretend cycle lane quite frequently. Really, really annoys me for some reason, even though the road where it happens is wide enough to land an airplane*

*this also means everybody does 40 instead of speed limit of 30.
** of course despite the fact it's a mandatory lane everybody still parks on it

the RLJing SS rider who i called out at the intersection of stockwell / brixton high road this morning didn't fuck me off nearly as much as the scooter riding pissant in the asl next to me who looked me in the eye, nodded towards said RLJer and said 'black bastard' in a presumptuous fashion. Didn't like it when i called him a racist fucking cunt either. Should probably invest in something more powerful than a 50cc suzuki scooter if he wants to make intimidating 'vroom vroom' noises at me whilst giving the stink eye.

Atrocious cyclists all over the shop this morning. Great Dover St: Blue jersey, some rotten old rusty red geared squeaker: Perhaps if you sat down in your seat you wouldn't wobble around the road so much and close passing cyclists/squeezing between gutter riders and tippers like you did wouldn't have been half as dangerous. Or perhaps not being such a dickcheese would help. I'll see you monday when that heckling you could hear all the way from old kent road to the Roebuck pub will resume.

Middle aged woman in a Dickies mini skirt, corner of museum street and new oxford street: definately not on here, but if when someone is indicating left, and is positioned to the left hand side of the lane, probably best not to squeeze up along the left hand side of them. Especially if you're going straight across. Didn't know Dickies made mini skirts though, I'll give you that.

Finally, to the idiot going right off of Arlington road down Inverness Street. Wobblemutor, female, dark clothing: saying "sorry sorry sorry" does not make it ok when you cut across in front of oncoming traffic, although your scarf fluttering in the wind as you sailed past me did look quite majestic.

So good to be back on the bike again after 2 months off due to careless driving.

People who on first acquaintance invite you to join their racist club. Presumptuous is the word.

i am from the colonies, the smell my naturally occurring racist pheromones might have lulled him into a false sense of security.

People who on first acquaintance invite you to join their racist club. Presumptuous is the word.

as a former 20 stone white guy with a shaved head*, this pretty much happened whenever I got into a taxi.

the fact I was generally dressed like an extra from the 8-mile film wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the graffiti logo of my hip hop website was somehow lost on them. but then the massive racists aren't the most cerebral of folks.

*I am of course now a 9 stone asian woman with luxurious flowing hair.

Some fucking idiot trying to jump red light on Newington Butts pedestrian crossing. He realised that I was on his way so he slammed his brakes, hit my rear wheel and went over handlebars.
It looked like he landed pretty hard. Maybe that will teach him.
Now I need to fork out 40£ for a new rear light which I lost there. Cunt.
I hate that crossing and cyclist there. I knew that sooner or later something like that will happen.

Guy on a run of the mill bike taken for a spin out of the shed kind, around Kennington and Oval towards Brixton, refused to be overtaken by a madam wearing a pink hi-vis. Eventually resorted to RLJ just to keep ahead (which still failed). The strain on his face whilst doing this manoeuvre time and time again was palpable (redder face than his already rather red hair) that I though he would eventually drop dead from the exertion!

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The reward. . . . death!

Growing number of people going the wrong way up one way roads at the moment - why not just use the next road over?

Nearly daily wrong-way spots on Endell Street near Covent Garden - on which they're heading for a junction that's carnage even if you're going the correct direction!

*I am of course now a 9 stone asian woman with luxurious flowing hair.

Dibs

Growing number of people going the wrong way up one way roads at the moment - why not just use the next road over?

But riding a bike is the right way...

One way roads are something that frustrate me. They are really only a way of getting cars and trucks around a road network that really wasn't designed for them. I feel no guilt riding the wrong way up them but you have to be very careful about pedestrians who may have become conditioned to only looking for traffic coming from one direction.

you have to be very careful about pedestrians who may have become conditioned to only looking for traffic coming from one direction.

http://media.tumblr.com/60649dc533ded746455f65a85220b720/tumblr_inline_mpfj6lRdR51qz4rgp.png

Now don't get me started on that crossing.

Time to start calling our bad pedestrians thread>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

as a former 20 stone white guy with a shaved head*, this pretty much happened whenever I got into a taxi.

the fact I was generally dressed like an extra from the 8-mile film wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the graffiti logo of my hip hop website was somehow lost on them. but then the massive racists aren't the most cerebral of folks.

My neighbour's plumber found out I used to live in Bow.

"Ah, you know the pub I used to drink in?"

"Yeah" I said, "on Roman Road".

"It's all changed now" he said.

"Oh shit" I thought.

"Too many Pakis" he said.

"My girlfriend's from Pakistan" I said.

"How's your central heating, I do quotes!" he said.

I went back inside and shut the door. It's the presumption, why assume I will join in your hate-fest, what makes you think that? Girlfriend's from Poland anyway.

Bloody polskistanis