Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Cyclists using pedestrian crossings boils my piss.

#rep

god damn cyclists using pedestrian crossings - next time i see one near a pedestrian crossing i'm gonna kick him in the shins, to teach him a lesson.

god damn cyclists using pedestrian crossings

It's mostly nodders that do it too.

they're the worst! with their bikes i don't like and their personal safety equipment making them look all... different. some of them don't even know how to trackstand!

Cyclists using pedestrian crossings boils my piss.

Toucan crossings, you can do what you like.

I prefer to wear my 'personal safety' equipment behind closed doors.

Is there a thread for calling out trainwankers?

I hope you made sure your kid gave her a grin and a wave as the train moved away!

She was also doing this, sitting in a four seat section with one other person, but had her legs in the gangway, luckily because of all the running around and screaming my son does he was skilful enough to avoid her :)

Seriously though, much like the collective responsibility argument, my son does not constantly run around like that. That kid you see looking all calm and peaceful sitting and reading is the same as the one you see running around like a crazy person. We are all individuals, sometimes we are on bikes, sometimes walking, sometimes we make mistakes on the road, sometimes it's someone else that makes a mistake that effects us. I'm sure all the people that complain about roudy children have been a roudy child themselves at some point.

I'm sure I've been a terrible person to sit next to on a train and I've got annoyed by other people on trains. I would like to think I am mostly a considerate cyclist/trainwanker/driver/pedestrian and I try to teach the same values to my son, but as a parent you have to choose your battles. When I'm holding a massive heavy bike with child seat (because another selfish person was sitting in the bike strapping area, whilst there were other empty seats) was not a time to try to corral him.

Edit: Oops, that was a bit of a rant, and not in reply specifically to cogsucker, but also @ice and @Clockwise... Not singling any of you out, collective responsibility and all that ;)

That almost sounds like a reasonable, measured, discussion.

FOR SHAME!

kids will be kids.

I'm sure I was a horrible child so I have no right to complain.

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trains going towards Airports should have seperate luggage carriages.

Italy is a pleasant country with nice food but also very corrupt. It is difficult to achieve anything honestly. And there is no sense of collective responsibility. The UK is not so corrupt. We do have a sense of collective responsibility, although some abrogate it. You have to choose.

Hahahahah what the fuck is this, though?

Beats me!
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I've not been in Bristol all that long, but it seems to me that because there are a lot of shared bike/walk paths that people think they can just cycle on any footpath.

Bristol is inhabited by pavement riding cretins, I have whinger about it before on here.

Am on holiday in Wales at the moment. Yesterday we were in the car and a cyclist rode in the gutter at 5 mph waving at us to overtake him. He was doing this going round a blind corner, thankfully the other half realised he was a moron and we hung back, as a large lorry came round the bend.

If he had ridden further out he would have been able to see the lorry. Directing traffic is a bad idea, encouraging people to overtake when you are unaware of what is coming up is just fucking moronic.

I thought Joe was #everythingblack ?

Calling myself out for idiotic riding around Piccadilly Circus, through peds at a crossing, because I mistakenly thought the lights were in my favour. Karma ensured I had a slo-mo clipless fail in Kennington.

Karma also ensured I had a puncture, fortunately within walking distance of home.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-cyclists-crashing-into-more-blind-people-and-their-guide-dogs-charity-warns-9692714.html

odd headline

maybe they should look before they cross roads.....oh wait.

To the guy in full lycra, riding in the drops of his road bike, who yelled "over" at me this morning. It's a canal towpath. If you want to go that fast, take the road...

should have slammed on the brakes and shouted "over the handlbars!" at him.

The whole phenomenon is a bit strange. If the rise was due to higher numbers of cyclists riding on the pavement in general you'd expect them to be hitting everyone, not just blind people. After all, the cyclist is motivated to avoid a collision if only by self-interest, so collisions are generally due to them blundering into people coming around corners or out of doorways.

It does raise the dark comedic image (not for the blind person obvs) of a fuckwit pavement cyclist playing chicken with a blind person unaware that they can't see them coming.

I do wonder if perhaps quite a few of these incidents are gutter -riding cyclists hitting guide dogs as they step out. The collision being due to the fact that the blind person can't hear the cyclist coming.

All chin stroking aside, it has to be said that blind people with guide dogs are pretty fucking obvious and anyone who doesn't notice them waiting to cross is probably not paying attention to where they're going.