Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

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  • Or jumping red lights and driving on the pavement.

  • Jinx.

  • "“This might be the beginnings of an Amsterdam or Copenhagen but everyone abiding by the rules and co-existing is key."

    I don't see how a few bad apples should lead to denial of important infrastructure.
    By that logic all roundabouts in NI should be ripped out as half of the motorist don't indicate, footways removed as quite a few peds in Belfast CC are legally blind... it's a stupid argument.

    Hell is other people anyway :p

  • Wiggins has never been a noted thinker but I do love the insinuation in the headline that he will be leading the crack down.

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  • Both of them?

  • Wiggins isn't completely wrong, but he hasn't pitched this one right. It is actually a much more positive story. Putting it in terms of cyclists 'behaving' is overbearing and unnecessary. It's actually about competent or effective cycling. Observing road traffic legislation (as opposed to 'advice' in the Highway Code, which is not all good) is simply a very basic requirement of competent cycling. It's an old chestnut, but it's simply a question of developing skill.

    Those grey areas, like whether or not to wear headphones, which are not currently subject to any rules, are harder to motivate by the 'behave' approach. I personally dislike it intensely when people shut themselves off in the public realm, whether they stare at their portable computers/personal tracking devices (sometimes known, misleadingly, as 'mobile phones'), and irrespective of whether they walk, cycle, pogo stick, etc., but there are no rules in place concerning this for cyclists. All you can do is to appeal to people's pride in doing an activity well.

    He's also off the mark when he tries to warn against jumping red lights by claiming that it's very hazardous. Very few crashes result from cyclists jumping red lights, but you don't have to warn of potential dire consequences to make it unacceptable.

  • Nice bit of PR from him, to announce his upcoming range via Halfrauds.

  • According to the CTC headphone use is not linked to more RTCs involving cyclists. I don't see any good reason to criminalize them while cycling. They're very annoying though when you try to announce you are coming, but of course nobody hears you ;)

    It would be good for more people to get training though, no lights, kerb cycling, no shoulder checking, going on the inside of vehicles, filtering at a shitty time and some other things are regular "PLZ DONT DO THAT" occurrences.

  • Hay perhaps there'll be a follow up with Lewis Hamilton calling on all motorist to follow the rules, even the one's which he's just made up off the top of his head.

  • Crackdown can't wait.

  • He's also obviously never ridden a bike in the Netherlands if he thinks people follow the rules there.

  • He's a fucking idiot.

  • "Sir Bradley added: “Traffic lights are there for a reason. Jumping traffic lights ... you get run over by traffic coming the other way. The next morning that’s another cyclist that’s died. They are termed under the phrase ‘cyclist’ but they’re not cyclists as such, they are not membership holders of British Cycling."

    An entire paragraph of utter fail. WAC.

  • Research showed a cyclist listening to headphones hears as much as a driver with the radio on and windows up.

  • Traffic lights exist to stop cars crashing into one another, they don't exist on cycle/cycle cycle/ped infrastructure.

    It's a horrible insinuation that lots of cyclists die because they weren't following the rules, a really nasty lie.

  • they’re not cyclists as such, they are not membership holders of British Cycling.

    What the shitting christ has BC membership got to do with...well...anything?

    It's shitehawks like Wiggins that make me glad my employer no longer requires me to be a member.

  • Jumping traffic lights ... you get run over

    I do wonder what the ... covers.

    The whole thing looks like it's been spun up from a few cras off the cuff remarks into a standard click-bait anti-cyclist article. But Surbradley hasn't covered himself in glory all the same.

  • Yep indeed so we should all complain about drivers listening to the radio ;)

  • No. We should complain about then driving with the windows closed.

    Or about them killing people.

    I forget.

  • Anybody come across this guy before? Was around him from E&C to Clerkenwell Road this morning, saw him RLJ through every light, cutting up everyone around him, genuinely nasty to be near him on the road.


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  • That's RPM, he's on here occasionally.

  • 4 women just followed each other like lemmings down the left hand side of the bus I'm on as we are pulling into a stop. The one at the back was too busy looking at her phone to understand the stupidity of it all.

  • Calling out the two Go-Pro hero's last night at about 18:30. E&C was fu*ked due to the accident so the po po asked nicely that we dismount and walk our bikes around most of us do apart from the two middle aged go-pro hero's who decide they have to cycle through the really busy and narrow walk way. They were asked about 4 times by the po po to walk and each time they gave them a load of arse. Why why....

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Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

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