Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

I have way too much time on my hands

Don't jump red lights

• Red light jumping is as pervasive among drivers as it is among cyclists.
  
  

Don't ride without a helmet

• The case for the efficacy of cycle helmets is overstated, both at the individual level, and especially at the population level. Your own experience is limited, prejudiced, and any extrapolation entirely flawed.
  
  

Don't undertake at junctions

• Undertaking or filtering?
  
  

Don't use my car to lean on at traffic lights. Mits off.

• Your car will survive a handprint.
  
  

Don't cycle in the middle of the road

• Best practice in urban (and other) cycling is often to take a primary position in the road, particularly at pinch points or other points where a cyclist may be at risk of close passing vehicles.
  
  

Don't change road position without signalling

• If you're driving so close that this is a major issue, perhaps you should hold back.
  
  

Don't wear headphones

• The same might be said for drivers with the radio on. And the engine running. And the windows closed.
  
  

Don't ride on the pavement

• Only 2% of pedestrians injured on pavements involved cycles. In the absence of adequate infrastructure, pavements (or, rather, footways) may be the only safe place for a person on a bicycle. Shared use zones exist all over the place, with minimal conflict.
  
  

Don't ride without lights

• When? During the day?
  
  

Don't wear all black outfits

• When? During the day? Irrespectively, the case for hi-viz clothing is overstated, particularly in well-lit urban environments
  
  

Don't dress like Lance Armstrong on your way to the shops

• Your sartorial advice is noted, if a little inconsistent.
  
  

Don't stop in front of the stop line so you can't see the lights

• A lack of adequate infrastructure means that being positioned in front of motor traffic is the safest place for people to be on bicycles. As opposed to down the side on the roadway. Visible is best, right? Isn't that why you promote the use of lights and wearing of highly coloured clothing?
  
  

Don't ignore pedestrian crossings

• What type of crossing? cf. red lights, and drivers ignoring the same. Except killing more people while doing it.
  
  

Don't ignore ambulances

• The same may be said for motor vehicles.
  
  

Don't continue what you are doing when you hear sirens

• The same may be said for motor vehicles
  
  

Don't hold onto cars to get your speed up.

• And just how often does this happen
  
  

Don't swear at me because I have caused you to stop

• Don't drive like a cunt then. You're in two plus tonnes of fast moving steel. The same may also be said of motor vehicle drivers, of course. I mean, perish the thought anyone should impede their god given right to drive as fast as they like
  
  

Don't leave the scene of an accident you have caused

• The same may also be said of motor vehicle drivers. Except that car drivers cause magnitudes more accidents that people on bicycles.
  
  

Don't think for a moment that you own the road

• People on bicycles have the same entitlement as people in motor vehicle. Moreso, as they may use the roads without license. More than 80% of them also own and drive motor vehicles too '- does that mean they do own the roads?
  
  

Don't turn left or right without signalling

• The same may also be said of motor vehicle drivers
  
  

Don't ride in the road if you can't ride in a straight line

• Should they ride on the pavement then?
  
  

Don't ride 2 abreast

• Riding 2 or more abreast, when in a group, is safer for the riders, and allows for faster vehicles to may quicker overtaking manouevers once there is adequate space.
  
  

Don't ride 3 abreast

• Riding 2 or more abreast, when in a group, is safer for the riders, and allows for faster vehicles to may quicker overtaking manouevers once there is adequate space.
  
  

Don't block the road for a chin wag with your mates

• The same may also be said of motor vehicle drivers
  
  

Continued...

Don't pretend I don't exist just because you are going up hill

• Don't pretend the cyclist doesn't exist, or exists only as an inconvenience, because you want to be in front of them.
  
  

Don't blame cars for everything, you are often to blame

• Well yes. But when something awful does happen, the person on the bicycle is more likely to come off worse. But the burden or responsibility is skewed towards the vulnerable road user, as opposed to the perso driving two or more tonnes of fast moving steel.
  
  

Don't play chicken with a car

• Don't blame the victim
  
  

Really don't play chicken with a van

• Don't blame the victim
  
  

Really really don't play chicken with a bus

• Don't blame the victim
  
  

Really really really don't play chicken with a lorry. They are not moving, because they haven't seen you. It will hurt. You will probably die and I will in turn need counselling!

• Don't blame the victim. But thanks for the stunning display of empathy there. I wonder if that's what you would have said to these people:
  
• The lorry driver who killed cyclist Catriona Patel was drunk and chatting on a mobile.
  
• The lorry driver who killed Eilidh Cairns had faulty eyesight. He then went on to kill another woman in the same manner.
  
• The lorry driver who killed cyclist Brian Dorling turned across his path.
  
• The lorry driver who killed cyclist Svetlana Tereschenko was in an unsafe lorry, failing to indicate and chatting on a mobile.
  
• The lorry driver who killed cyclist Deep Lee failed to notice her and smashed into her from behind.
  
• The lorry driver that killed cyclist Andrew McNicoll failed to notice him and side swiped him.
  
• The lorry driver that killed cyclist Daniel Cox was in a truck which did not have the correct mirrors and whose driver had pulled into the ASL on a red light and was indicating in the opposite direction to which he turned.