Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

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  • It certainly turbod my world.

    Didn't have the display panel though. I feel like I really missed out there.

    I'm just imaniging what would happen of you were to just start reving at traffic lights...

  • This is horribly 'jumpers for goalposts' but I used to get my dad to clothes peg the flap of a Rice Krispies box to the fork so the spokes would rub against it. As far as I was concerned it was the California Highway Patrol.

  • Was flabbergasted at the stupidity of about 15 cyclist this morning. Crossing the road onto Gracechurch street and the traffic is stopped at the lights heading towards London Bridge. You have a bus in one lane and a taxi in the other so no room for any cyclist at the front or so I thought. Just about to cross the road when a fella on a bike comes down the wrong side of the road cuts across the crossing and the traffic island while people are crossing and realising he can't get to the front due to people crossing and there being no room just stops on the traffic island. To my amazement 14 other sheep follow, so now they are all trying to get on the island and those that can't are now in the road with cars and buses coming there way.

    Stood in utter bewilderment. What the actual fu*k

  • ...there being no room just stops on the traffic island. To my amazement 14 other sheep follow, so now they are all trying to get on the island and those that can't are now in the road with cars and buses coming there way.

    Sounds like Critical Mass.

  • To the guy with a fixie disc who cut straight across me in the ASL to turn left just as the lights were turning green - you were apologetic about it, so I shouldn't have yelled 'dickhead move' so loudly. Let's call it even.

    To the single speed guy in the City who sat up, took his hands off the bars, slowed down and started zigzagging flamboyantly around drain covers - I was passing you slowly and cautiously because frankly your cycling was scaring the shit out of me. And my caution was justified, because as soon as I started drawing past you, you dropped back down and sped up whilst berating me for having the temerity to overtake while you were riding slowly and not in full control of your bicycle. I hope whatever sense of victory you gained from 'beating' me to the lights (which you sailed through on red) offsets the deep cavernous gnawing feeling you get in the mornings when you look in the mirror and remember you're a prize cunt.

  • I sooooo hope single speed guy is reading this!

  • Is this still where you bitch about prick cyclists? Good.

    Fucking tool on a road bike, in what looked like a data print jersey going down Hornsey rise. Well done your faster than all the nodders. But over taking slow cyclists and and undertaking cars (me) on a narrow road, at the same time, is a massive dick move because you leave me with next to no space to maneuver if something happens.

    It's even more annoying when I then have to crunch straight over the freshly dead corpse of a cat because your doing your best to sit in my blind spot... much to the delight of my animal loving other half.

    If it's 20mph for cars maybe it's worth echoing that slow pace and wait until your on one of those massive wide roads shortly coming up to put your foot down.

    Prick.

  • undertaking cars? what, like filtering?

    *you're

  • Undertaking cars on a narrow road while overtaking other cyclists. Not the most sensible.

  • undertaking cars? what, like filtering?

    Yes, but it's much easier for the OP to describe the situation at hand by using the term 'undertaking' rather than 'filtering'. Put the pitchforks away.

  • I overtake slow cyclists when there is space.

    He overtakes cyclists at the same time.

    Then because I'm overtaking slowly because of the general road conditions* he tries to go past me at the same time on my inside.... I think "undertaking" describes that. That means I have two sets of cyclists on my inside so I have to move further out to make sure there is enough space.

    Admittedly I could have just not bothered and made the judgement that if he is confident enough to squeeze through small gaps he is perfectly able to manage his space without me giving any more.

    Or he could have just taken up a car / motorbike like position on my tail and dealt with riding at 17mph or whatever, where I can see him, and wait the couple of hundred metres until we are past the line of cyclists.

    *x'ing near a housing estate, lots of roads to the right I know people come out of, etc. etc.

  • Be a proper car driver and cut him up/door/spit on/make him pay road tax next time.

  • ...and then shit on your own bonnet.

  • if the cyclist who was pissing on yer chips was already mid-overtake of other cyclist before you started to overtake in yer car then i'd suggest you were behaving in an unsafe manner.

    if, however, Roady McSpeedytits started to overtake the other cyclist and you whilst you were mid overtake then yes, shit in his helmet.

    /struggling to piece together a mental image of what happened based upon your description - please tick where appropriate.

  • I'm with Hugo7. When on my bike, I wait till it's safe to overtake slower riders, but many others just push on through and it's most annoying. I admit that sometimes I am cautious, but I'd rather that than endanger another rider.

  • That explains your cx results.

  • BOOM!!

    I am the slower rider at cx!!

  • Maybe I'll just wait on the road tomorrow morning and then force feed him the old tax disks I (for some unknown reason) keep in my glove box. All while shouting "PAY IT!"

  • Calling out the shitty cyclist in Rapha gear, on a road bike with guards, who decided to "filter" up the inside of my car, as I indicated left, heading north at the junction of Kennington Park Road and Kennington Lane, just south of Elephant and Castle. He wobbled off alongside my bonnet and then over the junction, delaying all the decent cyclists who waited behind me who then had to wait longer as I sat there waiting for him to fuck off.

  • That junction is terrible for that particular bit of asshattery.

  • Some really terrible filtering:

    http://www.thedebrief.co.uk/news/opinion/this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-female-cyclist-in-london-20150952151

    Why filter to the head of the queue just as the lights change? Only do that if you know the sequel and even then I wouldn't cut in like that.

  • Why does she appear to be taking the middle lane at the pedestrian crossing on TCR at 0:50?

  • Going to turn right I guess. Nothing in that video particularly worried me. Take into account the shoddy video which distorts everything so it may look like the cyclist is beside a vehicle rather than behind it.

  • Yup, wide angle lens makes the gaps seem a lot smaller than they are.

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Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

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