Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Calling myself out as a bad pedestrian yesterday.

Crossing a street in a quiet, residential bit of Balham - near a junction that I do by bike every single day and know for a fact that the peds don't look when they cross.

I wandered out into the road with my shopping and nearly got taken out by a lady on a hybrid, who thankfully managed to swerve to avoid me.

Managed to call out an apology as she cycled away. I'm an idiot.

The amount of nobber behaviour on the new superhighway across Blackfriars is unbelievable. No cars involved just dickhead cyclists being dickheads to each other. It makes me real sad.

This guy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAmS4rTP-R0

Some incredulous work this morning on the North-South superhighway.

Commuter character sails through a bike-lane red, as the traffic starts moving on their green and indicating left. Continues to move up as the column of traffic is turning left, tries to filter through the left-turning traffic, causing a van to clip him. Gets the message, but f*ck it, he's committed now! Goes with the flow round to the left, then across the road to the right in front of an HGV, u-turn back onto himself, and voila, back on track.

"mate, have some respect for other road users" was all I could muster at the next set of lights in my bewildered state.

Calling me out: Lost my rag with a driver doing what I think of as 'incomplete passes'. You know the sort of thing: start out passing you giving some room, but wayyyy before they've actually passed you start drifting sideways into you. Passive aggressive driving.

I was riding two abreast with my 11yr old down Bow St towards Waterloo Br. This driver does it twice: second time was because first attempt was so incomplete there was nowhere for them to overtake into.

As they drifted over well within my reach I start pounding on the metalwork. I think I dented it.

oops.

Nah. Fuck that. Anyone trying to take out me and my kid on a bike will probably end up ingesting their bumper. Rectally.

Saw a lady wearing a leather jacket (seriously wtf, it was awfully warm this morning) in the drops, shoot out from left of a van from a side road onto NKR and use the entire width of the bus lane to make the left turn (due to the speed she carried through the bend).

I'd spotted her when she was approaching the van and slowed up, but she had no idea I was there. Guess she was lucky I wasn't a taxi.

I gave her a funny look and a shake of the head, and she then ran the next red light. :|

"Don't touch my van!"
"If I can touch it you're too fucking close!"
"You were halfway in the road!
"No, I was all the way in the road, now fuck off!"

Me & Private Ambulance driver on Friday evening through Dulwich Village.

"If I can touch it you're too fucking close!">

Exactly! #bumpersticker

Private ambulance drivers are always super dodgy, the idea that stickers on a van make them emergency services rather than a white van man ugh

rep

"Don't touch my van!"
"If I can touch it you're too fucking close!"

I have had this exact exchange a number of times.

Private Ambulances are a euphemism, they are what undertakers use to pick up 'clients'.

Sounds like they're trying to pick up trade as they go along.

This one was basically a minibus

Had the pleasure of watching a guy jumping every single light without fail over the space 10 minutes. Queue me having to pass him over and over again. No big deal. But then he does it again at speed, with me stationary, very fucking close. Close enough to scare me. So when I passed him again I gave him a"You do know red means stop right." His response was "I know"... "I know, I know I KNOW I KNOW!!!!!! AAAARRRRGGGHHHH" RAGE ANGRY AARGGHH SCREAM.

Me. On Lower Thames Street. Taxi driver questioned why I was not using the cycle highway. I began to explain why (I am only on the road for short distance and then turning left at Southwark Bridge), but after a really shit day, I exploded instead and told him to do one. So annoyed with my temper!

jesus some of you lot are terminally english. it's ok to tell someone to get fucked, especially if they're being a cunt to you.

Nothingh like delivering a cheery 'fuck you' with a happy wave and a smile. REALLY annoys people.

cunt london bus driver pulling into the middle lane at speed on gower street with no indication or warning. had to emergency brake and swerve into the right hand lane to avoid causing me almost to get wiped out by a car behind me.

Called him a cunt.

This turning into the

Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists' totally justifiable reactions to everyone else who are cunts

thread :)

Obviously fixed gear crits are in full swing. Saw a guy (Green jersey, grey mash frame) last night doing full on sprints brakeless in Victoria parks pedestrian area. As cyclists we aren't that popular most of the time, so try to avoid going full gas with children, dogs, and other leisurely riders around. Pick a quiet road circuit please.

who's we, whiteman?

You lost me buddy!

Calling out myself, cycled wood green to streatham with no lights, when I left street lights just started going on and by the time I crossed the river it was decently dark.