Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

In slightly too much of a hurry this morning because I was late for work, I had to fire through crossing peds on Rosebury Ave due to back wheel skidding all over the shop. But if I’d hit the front brake, it would have been curtains for me. Stupid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCimAuL9Km0

A group in Personal Bikefit kit undertaking vehicles at Hammersmith gyratory, even when the drivers were signalling left to exit.

To the big fella on the Abbey Bike, no one needs to see you arse crack at 7 in the morning, gets some shorts that fit. Also go and see the doctor you have a baboons arse.

I issued a "fuck you, dick" to a courier/fake courier on Boundary Passage yesterday. I'd just bought a fantastic flapjack and was idly dreaming about life, the universe and bloody clients, when the rider came onto the shared use path way too fast, making him brake and me jump out the way. I heard an angry "keep to the left" and so I replied.

Which may have been an overreaction. Shared use paths suck, obvs, but there's not really a keep left sort of rule is there? Cyclists definitely need to give way though, that's the law I think. Anyway I was in a mood yesterday. This was a long and boring post. I need to drink my coffee faster.
How is everyone today?

Keep left is more a rider etiquette sort of thing than a rule. It's the kind of etiquette that helps avoid collisions and other flapjack related mishaps.

Riding appropriately for the conditions and slowing to avoid someone enjoying a flapjack would also be etiquette.

Calling someone a dick in public is just poor form, unless you spit at them and grab you crotch.

I'd just bought a fantastic flapjack

Euph?

Lovely cycling weather yesterday evening. Sunny but cool with an occasional refreshing splodge of rain. Nice this morning too, bar a few inattentive drivers. 9.5/10

Shit, this isn't the commute thread is it?

Ah, I was pedestrianised at the time, not riding. Hence getting irritated.
Will remember your crotch spit tip though.

Now trying to think what that could be a euph for....

Pedestrians can walk wherever they like on a shared path, so his 'keep left' admonishment was somewhat out of order. In fact pedestrians retain the right to walk anywhere on a segregated path (i.e the ones with a painted solid line down the middle, a la London Fields) as well.

I always walk on the right on shared paths so I can see who's coming towards me on my side. Same as if I'm walking on the road in that there countryside. I think it might even be a thing. Maybe in teh highways coed.

teh highways coed

Are you suggesting we should share the road with wimminz?

Really? I did not know that - I've been silently cursing peds for walking in the bike lane of shared use paths for ever.

Of course not. Females are a distraction. You can't expect a man to concentrate on learning / the road / work if there are females there flaunting their female charms. My plan for mayor - HGVs allowed on the roads 5.30am - 6am, women and gay men 6-8am, men and gay women 8am-10am. I'll have to give some thought to Bs and Ts.

Keep doing that, they are still being discourteous.

What about gingers?

Asking for a friend.

But if I’d hit the front brake, it would have been curtains for me.

Hangings too good for them.

Night time. Because of the sun burn.

Daytime, coz we all like gingers to suffer.

But the glare! The sunlight and open fires everywhere. Won't be able to see where I'm going.

NOTE: does not reflect my own views/opinions but taking inspiration from certain views that I have experienced.

Sunlight is merely an inconvenience. Stake through the heart or GTF.

Lovely weather this morning by the way.

Lovely weather this morning by the way.

Oh. It is glorious isn't it.

Summer drizzle's fun!

Except for tight corners, drain covers, white lines and when motor vehicles pass.