Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

at speed (actual, balls-out (he did not have his balls out) speed).

It so happens that after my already-tatty commuting jeans caught on the saddle nose this morning the phrase "balls out speed" took on a far richer meaning

Cycling around Soho or Fitzrovia in particular is incredibly frustrating. You can be a few yards from your destination, but have to do some ridiculous detour taking you further and further away from your desired direction of travel.

Particularly annoying attempting to get to the Boris bike stands that all seem to be on one way streets in the opposite direction to what you want.

Was this guy, out of interest, riding a Ribble Audax bike with a pannier?
I once tried to follow this guy along the Embankment and got absolutely ruined. I couldn't even keep his wheel. He didn't even look bothered by it.
V embarrassing.

There was a regular guy like that when I used to commute that way. I was suffering to tail a few lycra fiends on way back home once and this spectre just appears out of nowhere and casually overtakes us. Panniers and all! everyone lost the will to go anywhere.

Promuter doping, that's the only explanation

I had a bloke on a bike on the pavement nearly hit me today, in Bristol.

#coolstorybro.

I had a bloke on a bike on the pavement nearly hit me today, in Bristol.

#coolstorybro.

https://www.lfgss.com/thread125299.html

^I was safely back in London today.

don't ride a bike without 2 braking mechanisms, it makes you look like a cunt.

happy?

Yep

look kids! it's forum favourite and general part of the furniture Dancing 'i'm a tedious, friendless sad sack who craves any sort of attention so long as it provides the briefest of respite from contemplating my otherwise utterly banal existence that seems to serve merely as a warning to others' james doing his cat-5, cross-thread-dredge troll party trick. wave everyone!

What an unusual set of middle names, were your parents Welsh?

^^ looks like he has wet and shit the bed

What an unusual set of middle names, were your parents Welsh?

Not enough Ls, do you even Taff?

Nein.

Damn Greenhell, u mad.

don't rlj. It makes us all look like cunts.

Happy?

ftfy

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/brazilian-cyclists-draft-truck-124kmh-120564#

^ mate, say what you want about safety but you've got to be a pretty good cyclist to stick a go pro on a truck at 70 mph

and bunny hop over cateyes

Ha! Im not calling them bad cyclists I just didnt know where else to put it!

Mind-blowingly retarded...

However, also fairly gully.

The lols of the idiots digging them out for not wearing a helmet....

I'm off to complain to the japanese authorities about kamikaze pilots not wearing helmets.

Particularly annoying attempting to get to the Boris bike stands that all seem to be on one way streets in the opposite direction to what you want.

You can either walk or bank the Strava distance you put in! ; )

Yup, another useful little scheme. If they haven't already done so, the area behind Stoke Newington Town Hall should be improved as part of the same scheme. (I haven't taken a look at it yet.)

I'm pretty sure Edward's Lane would have been made one-way when there would have been a major rat-run along Edward's Lane and Queen Elizabeth's Walk (which was subsequently filtered, removing the 'need' for one-way operation, which was an anachronism).

Just to follow up this theme, of disobey-til-make-it-legal (reminds me of fake it til you make it, which is what I say to all my lovers)...

er where was I

Oh yeah, Rivington Street, near the Old Hipster Triangle. Used to be various one-ways, reversing all the way along it, and was a useful ped & cycle route if going east<>west around there avoiding Old and Great Eastern Streets. Now has cycle contra-lanes all the way along it. I used to contravene all the one ways systematically in the hope this would happen. Feel like it was worth breaking the rules.

I have another one now, east from Waterloo towards Hatfields. Still on dodgy ground legally. Reminds me of a brief conversation I had with John Snow outside ITN once about how rolling on a certain tiny bit of footway joing two legal routes had wound a courier friend in court against a particularly spiteful copper. Snow was rolling on the footway at the time, to park at stands, and he said 'Well, until they make proper provision, I will continue to do so!!'.

The bloke off the news said it was OK, so ...

All cyclists are shit. All motorists are shit. All pedestrians are shit.

There we go.

Oh yeah, Rivington Street, near the Old Hipster Triangle. Used to be various one-ways, reversing all the way along it, and was a useful ped & cycle route if going east<>west around there avoiding Old and Great Eastern Streets. Now has cycle contra-lanes all the way along it. I used to contravene all the one ways systematically in the hope this would happen. Feel like it was worth breaking the rules.

Well ... the actual history of that is a little different. :)

We've advocated this for the last twenty years or so, and we're very glad that it's finally happened (with the support of local businesses). They're now also thinking about timed filtering against the constant stream of minicabs at night.

Ok. Two options are available.
Hang back or overtake.
It's so easy.
Riding an inch from my wheel is not one of those options.
Hidden option no.3 is fuck off to mythical mamil-land where you can cycle like that all day long.