Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

To the guy trying to race me on Brockley Rise at 8:10 this morning, please don't play around on busy London roads like that. Swerving to block other cyclists, intentionally forcing them into traffic and aggressively chasing while shouting "Gonna stop you gonna stop you" is pretty poor behaviour. It's not a race.

To the guy trying to race me on Brockley Rise at 8:10 this morning, please don't play around on busy London roads like that. Swerving to block other cyclists, intentionally forcing them into traffic and aggressively chasing while shouting "Gonna stop you gonna stop you" is pretty poor behaviour. It's not a race.

Chant the same as he comes alongside then stick a bike pump into his spokes. I'm sure he'll see the funny side.

I carry a CO2 pump, so that would probably hurt me more than him.

It's extremely hard to intervene in a way that other road users can respond positively. Calling out, the question at the heart of this thread, seems to entrench rather than enlighten.

Slight dredge - I've always found that if a random stranger with no authority starts having a go at me for something, my instinct is to get defensive.

After that, it'll be stuck on my mind, obsessing over that arse who do they think they are blah de blah. After a while I might realise they were right.

Important thing is it made me think about it.

Keep calling them out. They may tell you to fuck off, but they'll think about it, and maybe they won't do that again.

Indeed, and it even gets a bit more meta:-

I still feel bad about shouting sweary things at the old codger who had a go at me for crossing a road on my bike using a toucan crossing. (I mean, it's got a bloody green bicycle light alongside the pedestrian bit, of course I'm allowed to use my bike on it.) This was ~4 years ago.

So, even though I wasn't doing anything wrong (and no, it wasn't busy enough a crossing to be a problem), hopefully I'll remember not to react so shoutily and sweary next time.

3 times in 2 commutes I've been bumped from behind by cyclists.

2 apologised profusely for being morons, the other however repeatedly bumped my rear wheel as I was going slowly as a bus set off causing my to stop, turn around ask him what the fuck he was doing to be returned with 'get a fucking move on then' and disappear down a non existent gap between a bus and a van.

You were lucky, you could have encountered him when he was in his car.

^^welcome to London ha!

I called out a silver-haired-dentist-type-in-Rapha, scooting along the inside of a tipper truck on Upper Thames.

No turns, stationary traffic, so not a suicidal dick move in itself.

Except that he was going soooooooo fuuuuuuucking sloooooooowly, as if he wanted to make sure he was up along side when the traffic does start to move.

To make up for his disappointment at not being shoulder-to-shoulder with the truck, having made it to the front before the lights changed, he sits a bare foot or two in front of the cab, just out of eyesight, and then on the off, does the most painfully protracted clipping in procedure, looking down at his feet and all but stopping, while the tipper keeps merrily rolling on.

Fuuuuuuuu....

What the hell was going on last night, was it national cycling on the pavement evening in London city?

First incident happened by the Tesco near Liverpool street station, all the buses were backed up so nearly every cyclist decided to cycle around the buses by cycling on the pavement. It;s bad enough with just the peds but add the cyclist was a nightmare, not one of them walked there bikes all just cycled through scattering peds left, right and centre.

Second incident again due to the buses a group of Boris bikers cycling on the pavement right outside the Cop shop while two coppers stood by and did nothing while the peds again had to scatter.

Third incident waiting at the lights with a few others, when a shout goes out to move, we all look round to see yet again two Boris Bikers cycle across the pavement through the waiting crowd so that they didn't have to wait at the red light. Could have been an horrific accident as the lady on the BB went through a lady standing at the light's bag got caught on the handlebars, dragging this lady into the road. Luckily no cars were passing at the time. The lady on the BB then just removed the bag and let it drop into the road and cycled off. Can't fucking believe it, still making me mad while typing this.

Bunch of C*unts

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Posting across three threads, overkill?

This is the thread to call people out, it is amazing they have videos celebrating their own stupidity.

^KEN bike ffs

What the hell was going on last night, was it national cycling on the pavement evening in London city?

First incident happened by the Tesco near Liverpool street station, all the buses were backed up so nearly every cyclist decided to cycle around the buses by cycling on the pavement. It;s bad enough with just the peds but add the cyclist was a nightmare, not one of them walked there bikes all just cycled through scattering peds left, right and centre.

Second incident again due to the buses a group of Boris bikers cycling on the pavement right outside the Cop shop while two coppers stood by and did nothing while the peds again had to scatter.

Third incident waiting at the lights with a few others, when a shout goes out to move, we all look round to see yet again two **Boris **Bikers cycle across the pavement through the waiting crowd so that they didn't have to wait at the red light. Could have been an horrific accident as the lady on the BB went through a lady standing at the light's bag got caught on the handlebars, dragging this lady into the road. Luckily no cars were passing at the time. The lady on the BB then just removed the bag and let it drop into the road and cycled off. Can't fucking believe it, still making me mad while typing this.

Bunch of C*unts

Please stop crediting this person.

Who cares, it's an easily identifiable name for a shit heavy bike

Please stop using the phrase everyone else in the known universe uses to describe Barclays hire bikes and use the term I've invented, which is used only by me, for deeply obscure reasons you won’t have any interest in.

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ken bikes.

I can skid. Let me go down Regent Street and dodge buses in order to awe total strangers.

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Are you saying that Multi Grooves' term is beyond your ken?

No, it's beyond my Boris.

Kencycles

I can skid. Let me go down Regent Street and dodge buses in order to awe total strangers.

Can I join? Sounds like fun

BB = Barclay's Bike

Total respect to the guy on the Cannondale Synapse going over London Bridge this morning who decided halfway across with a bus trying to over take him that now was the time to ride no handedno only this, but he decide to ride across from the bus lane to the far long no handed and with out looking. Class - NOT

Regents Park Beleton this morning. Building site on the South side. Construction worker in fluorescents stopping the cyclists so a skip lorry can make a three point turn and reverse into the site. Every cyclist, bar me just completely ignored him and sailed past straight in front of the lorry as it swung round!
'What the fuck is it with cyclists?' he asked me whilst I was waiting, 'I'm asking you all to stop'
'Unfortunately many of us are completely retarded and there is an unofficial race around this park every morning' was my response.