Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Transfusion aero hump, innit.

ok - good

What route do you use to avoid Jamaica Road going through Bermondsey ?

Oops.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/video-crash-footage-of-the-cyclist-who-rode-into-the-giro-ditalia-peloton

Has he considered cycle training?

Same thing but slowed down in bits to explain which guy it is/was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxXanjm7y-k

"This guy's obviously fucking drunk, on a fixed gear, no helmet"

Bikeradar >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I find that offensive, I normally ride geared when I'm drunk.

Shit roadies say >>>>.

Finally got one! Riding through the centre of Bristol, on a two lane one way section, the roads drops down a bit and there's a ped crossing which was red. Traffic was heavy and there was a bus and lorry in the left-hand lane. Despite this chap on an MTB proceeds to filter on the left as I watch, slightly dumbfoundedly. Predictably the lights change and he has to slam on his brakes, his rear wheel pops up and he clatters against the barrier, just managing to stay up right. I cruise past him in the right hand lane, feeling smug. Suddely he's there again, I was going at a good pace so I think he was sprinting to beat me. Ped crossing was red, I stopped, he shot over. Lots of mental finger-waging from me.

Calling myself out: Cycling up the Woodstock road in Oxford, OAP in a Volvo decides to pull across the cycle lane without looking, had to swerve quite violently to avoid going over the bonnet. Was so annoyed afterwards that I stopped paying attention and nearly rode head on into another cyclist. No excuse. If that was you, sorry.

London Street / Sussex Gardens junction - cycle-touring bloke on green turns left, sees peds still on pedestrian crossings and...starts blowing a whistle at them.

It gets better. Peds scatter and one chap zigs when he should have zagged and cycle-touring-goon rides straight in to him. Much swearing and agitation results.

cycle-touring-goon: that is one of the most dickish moves I've seen, and I've seen some dickish shit. Hope you didn't hurt the tourist in your efforts to get absolutely nowhere important fast, and I hope karma catches up with you and really badly stub your toe then fall over in public.

I hope the end of his front mudguard snaps before a wet audax.

Calling myself out. Nice/annoying roadie ride from elephant over olympia and back. I think I pissed off a lot of drivers, and had to pull some dick moves to make time past all the insane construction vehicles straddling lanes.

I bet he fucking commutes on a TT bike

Calling myself out too: a woman failed to stop at a junction in Hoxton and, instead of just braking and letting her go ahead, I squashed her into the side of the road to prove a point. She was justifiably pissed off at how close I rode to her.

I had some bad news today and was still taking it in, but the answer is not to cycle feeling like that or just to let others get on with what they're doing.

Dick move; no excuse. Sorry lady.

To miss a guy on a Boris bike getting between me and a post van I put my car into the railings opposite Lookers in Battersea. £1000 later it's back.

No helmet, no manners, no clue. Yes. Call out bad cyclists!

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Pictures or it never happened.

Are you anything to do with HarryPerrySE18 ?

So many questions... How fast was the boris biker going to catch you up, or were you driving towards the biker? How fast were you going that you had to crash into a fence to avoid one of the slowest vehicles on the road? How would a helmet have made it better, would it meant you'd have happily ploughed into boris biker if only he had a helmet?
I find when I'm driving that slowing down or stopping avoids pretty much all accidents, maybe you should have tried that?

to avoid one of the slowest vehicles on the road

Yeah sorry about that ...

I liked how part of the thread title was repeated emphatically.

Lately, on a couple of occaisions, I have found myself so incensed by the lack of adequate provision for cycles on our narrow-laned main roads that I have ridden on footways. And I feel no remorse. Fuck it, I've had enough of feeling like I can't use massive stretches of mostly empty footway when traffic's so bad and cycling among it is downright horrible.

Similar feelings to you @Skülly... I also appreciate the green men at junctions, where I must cross otherwise dangerous/fast/annoying traffic. Not always, and not quickly, but it makes more sense to do as a ped, and circle the junction, than wait for a green light and then sit in the middle of the road and hope nobody passes close before turning.

Called out a clusterfuck of whoppers this morning down Hackney Road. I was waiting behind a HGV at traffic lights with no room to pass down the left as there were cars parked in the bays, when all of a sudden one fucking hero decided to speed past me on the inside dragging a merry pack of wobbly sheep like nodders with him. When he realised there was no room he decided to drag his gas pipe thing onto the pavement and cycle through peds.

Unfortunately the three dick-ciples following him didn't know what to do. Two of them looked around aimlessly and started to shuffle back towards me and the end of the lorry, whilst the other one try to wedge his soggy arse in the one foot gap between truck and parked car. Unsuccessfully.

The light turned green and he waited for the truck to pull past, looked straight into my disapproving glare and then attempted to pull out of his stupid road position right into my path. So I swerved at him and called him an impatient cunt before enjoying the rest of my ride into work.

I found the pavement wanderer further up the road, still on the pavement despite there being a completely clear road and bus lane for him to use...

dick-ciples

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