Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Is this bad cycling, or just cycling?

it's the wrong kind of cycling. come on. you know this.

There was some full-on pronoddermuter peloton action on Jamaica Rd last night. Undertake overtake MUST GET TO NEXT RED LIGHT FIRST.

Fuck nodders!

Am I doing it rite?

you didn't make a snide comment about their fashion sense.

-10 scene points for you.

Cycling down Jamaica Road is such a mugs game, there's always a better backstreet route than all those traffic lights and buses.

Is there a term or forum word (remove "twat") that is used when another cyclist does everything in his power to get infront of you and to then takes massive risks to stay there?

Not that I know, but every time I'm waiting at the lights and I hear the double beep of somebody's bloody strava device as they arrive and stop, my heart sinks. So many strava-using commuters seem to act that way. Quite a common technique is for them to try and cut across you when the lights change to stop you accelerating. When that fails, if they catch up at the next lights, expect them to find a way to curve around and stop directly in front of you if they can. If they can't, they may just start playing a tiny drum solo, tapping brakes and shifters with their thumbs just to let everybody know that they're there and hyped and srs. A couple of stretches of failing to be fast is usually the trigger for a stupid jump of the next lights.

The Bristol Railway Path is closed in two sections, one at its lower end for 10 weeks. Que many cyclists on the Church Road riding on pavements, RLJing etc.

I tap my brakes normally in frustration at A, the cyclist who has juts parked themselves in front of me, B,RLJing, C, drivers in the ASL box.

Will stop from now on.

Shiiii.. my drum solos are supposed to convey nonchalance prior to boss acceleration when the lights change...

Very rude recumbent pilot

loved this from somebady back there <<<<

Actually a truism: never met anyone on a recumbent who wasn't a grump. It's like they think you're trying to talk to them so you can say 'woah man what the hell are you riding, it's nuts'. If a bender (my new name for them) actually deigns to speak to you, it's only to say that recumbents are really fast.

I hate them.

Anyone who knows Spongebob will know that this is not a compliment:

I was thinking the same :(

Bender? That's Squidward from spongebob

it's only to say that recumbents are really fast.

My tadpole recumbent trike is rather slow. I don't ride it much due to traffic and the motorbike barriers on non-road routes.

Well I met you years ago @Emyr (the Brooks professional you sold me just broke, I'm sending it for repair, after many happy comfortable miles - my best saddle ever) and you certainly weren't grumpy.

So that's me pwnd.

hehe no I never said Bender. Squidward is more grumpy.

OK maybe that name could be misconstrued.

'Benter'.

I find most traffic takes it as the opposite; "I'm about to turn right, so your best course of action is definitely to overtake recklessly just as I start my manuevre."

It's great around pub closing time once all the traffic has gone though. #definitelydontcyclehomeafterfivepints

I don't even remember selling a Brooks saddle. I've never used one...

Must have been something I was selling on behalf of mum :-S

^tl;dr:

pics or it never happened ;-)

Ah well maybe it was someone else with a Welsh sounding handle.

Or I'm riding your mum's saddle.

It is a really old one, so much better than the modern ones. The saddle not your mum.

Could have been me. Could have been @O'Shane who previously went by various other handles.

I don't think there is . Muggers game around those back streets. This is Bermondsey my friend.

Walking to the shops and only one out of half a dozen cyclists stopped on the red lights down walworth road. Found myself being a typical ped and frowning each time. Then I saw the police wandering up and down and not caring about it, so 50/50 blame?

Not sure about 50/50... ideally people wouldn't need police around to follow the rules of the road?