Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

A trail of onions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMnQ7lpOZ3o#t=30

It might have been a decent endo, had the lorry not been in the way...

Seriously, one hell of a lucky chap. Not the way to learn that particular lesson though!

Srsly? Just riding straight off without looking what's coming? I know the lorry done a RLJ, but FFS. Thank goodliness he weren't a bit faster off the line.

Is he wearing a full face helmet?

Glad it was caught on camera, the truck driver would have never admitted to the RLJ.

Green, of course, does not mean "Go", it means "You may go on if the way is clear".

Wow. I don't know the phasing of those lights but there's a set near me where they both go to amber at the same time - it may not be all the lorries fault.

Crazy (and lucky) cyclist!

I'd say I see a car / van / lorry rlj a couple of mornings every week on Trafalgar Square roundabout - the phasing must be close enough to tempt people into it

Don't blame phasing for risk taking drivers.

Lorry driver almost certainly jumped a red, cyclist was a complete idiot, it's not even as if the rider can possibly claim he was unsighted, look at the still image, guy in the yellow helmet can see it all develop and can't believe it. Rider's a twit. Also brown brogues on a weekday.

There are a lot of lights I can think of where you can guarantee you'll get a vehicle "gambling" and coming through on the red meaning that if you set off crossing on the green man you'd get hit about half the time. Seven sisters road outside Finsbury Park station springs to mind. It's one of those rules that people seem to think it's fine to break (and these junctions somehow miss "Operation Safeway").

Saying that, I was following a van last night who sped up to squeeze through some lights and then screeched to a halt. I got to the junction and saw that a police car was at the other side of the junction.

Wow how do people manage these things?

Female cyclist this morning on Borough High Street decided to copy two male cyclists and, albeit more slowly, follow them down a narrow gap between a bus and a van. The lights go to green, the bus moves off and a metal clip jutting out from the rear of the bus, at the side catches the woman's pannier and down she goes.

She was lucky she didn't end up under the wheels of either the bus or another vehicle. I just kmt and cycled off. Another cyclist stopped to check she was ok.

What was wrong with staying behind the bus, woman?

10 points for use of KMT, @cafewanda

Thank you!

Ugh. I commute Mall -> East every morning and the Trafalgar Sq roundabout is always a shit show. Traffic accelerates out of Northumberland westbound and every time at least one car doest stop for the red light half way around, cutting up traffic setting off from The Mall - usually cyclists at the front.

Who's the bad cyclist here?

Me (slowish pootler, probably overtaken by 50% of folk): at the lights, rather than sit way back in the queue along the kerb I try to make efficient use of the space in the the ASL 'box', often meaning I'm in the centre of the lane due to existing waiting cyclists on my left, and then, once the lights are green, I gradually move over to the left to allow faster cyclists to pass me on the right. I believe it's safer for cyclists to all be in a bunch at the front of a traffic queue rather than in a long line on the inside of other traffic.

Him: positioned to the left and slightly behind me at the lights because there were other cyclists in front of him, I try to move over to the left once the lights are green (checking over my left shoulder), but he's coming up on my inside to undertake me.

I say 'don't undertake!'

He says 'ride faster! signal!'

It didn't help that English wasn't his first language so he didn't know what under- as opposed to overtake meant... he thought I was telling him not to pass me at all and hence got a bit narky.

Oh well it's a nice sunny morning.

fuck that guy, he needs to take a bus.

carry on.

He shouldn't be undertaking. It is hard to signal in that situation as you aren't changing lanes or turning. No sympathy for cyclists who try to nip up the inside and have their front wheel taken out in this situation.

Twits undertaking or trying to is possibly my main commuting irk these days. I can't think of a single situation where its acceptable.

Some cyclists seem to think that someone riding in primary actually means, please try and squeeze into this gap between me and the pavement. Particularly impressive was the guy who tried to undertake me and then bully me further out as there was a car pulling out of a side-street ahead of us.

It didn't seem to occur to him that the reason I was cycling further out was because there was a car pulling out of a side-street ahead.

yelling at people as you undertake is like ringing your bell at peds on the pavement.

'ride faster! signal!'

I'm going to guess he was a wannabe club rider who expected something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVHs6RSlhhE

You aren't in his club riding all out speed fantasy but just trying to get somewhere. While commuting the only 3 signals you should need ever are to signal a left turn, to signal a right turn and to signal to a car/behind to slow down(the kind flapping arm pushing down), I add that one as it just makes riding more pleasant when you approach something odd and the driver behind understands rather than trying to pass you and then suddenly slamming brakes on when they reach whatever you had been slowing for. Beyond that your a cunt riding too near to other riders.

Ha! Yes he was a little like that. His attitude was very much of the "you're trying to tell ME how to ride??" variety. I tried to explain politely about courteous riding but it was lost on him.

Maybe I should have one of those "Cyclists! Beware of passing this vehicle on the inside" stickers on my rear mudguard.

Anyway, thanks for the reassurance all. As you were.

I'm filtering down right hand side of stationary traffic. A driver pulls out to turn right down a side street with out indicating and almost wipes me out. Who is at fault??