Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

I fuckin love that this forum is now called "London Fixie Goons and Single Speeders"

I rode all the way home in that style as well. And I certainly wasn't apportioning any chronological consideration for others of my socioeconomic demographic.

All I can say is they do good wheelies... Reeespeck!

astounding.

#lyfgoalz

Spotted a guy going brklss last night going through town, I can only assume it was fixed gear but he had flats with no foot retention. Seemed super safe.

racist cunt.

Some utter cockwomble on my commute undertaking everyone and everything. Cherry on top was when he shouted at a driver on their phone, and then jumped the red light. Strava says his name is Julius - so if you're on here, stop being a dick.

Calling myself out for a stupid manoeuvre that could have gotten me sick leave I don't want right now. Pay attention at all times!!!

Watched a bloke make a really really bad decision on Southwark Bridge Road this morning.

A HGV was waiting at the lights, which were just about to go green, with its two left wheels in the blue paint of the CS7. I'd stopped - I had no intention of going down there - but Mr. Nodder (under the protection of the magical blue paint) timed it perfectly so that he was alongside the HGV just as it started moving, and the gap began to narrow. Luckily he managed to get out, but it was far far too close.

Managed a 'Fucking hell, be careful mate', but couldn't compose anything more constructive than that.

I really don't want to watch anyone get squished.

Similar one this morning heading onto Lambeth Bridge from the south side. One of those lorry recovery lorries (the massive things), was waiting to enter the bridge from the roundabout.

I'd stopped behind and to the left of it anticipating it swinging left into the cycle lane and some hybrid riding office prick pushed past me. I said 'fuck me, don't do that, are you fucking stupid?' and then it started moving and cutting off the entire cycle lane as he got along side it. He jumped off his bike and mounted the pavement to avoid becoming 2D.

Someone's gonna come a cropper on that bit of road soon though, it seems to catch a lot of cyclists out.

Did he respond? Was there any concession that you'd spotted the deliberate mistake?

Nope, he bimbled back onto the road further up the bridge. I overtook him and then hung back to allow a bus to leave the bridge (same kind of risk at that end too, with anything bigger than a van) and he didn't try to push past me that time, so maybe he'd learnt his lesson. Who knows?

Why would you put this sticker on the outside of a vehicle?

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Because if it was inside only the driver would see it

There's a sticker on the nearside telling us about the sticker on the offside.

The more often is says don't go up the inside, the more people are likely to read it. I'd stick one on the front, two on the back, and one on the nearside as well.

was that about 9:15am?

courier, black bike, blond hair. quite tall... blasted past me on my side of a traffic island in the opposite direction. not cool.

Was it @MaxC ?

Maybe, definitely post 9am. Were you him or just in the vicinity?

Remain IN Europe. Not on the left hand side of a left-turning vehicle.

saw great example of the quintessential self-entitled oblivious cyclist last night.

had just finished playing basketball and was pootling through the backstreets from the foundry on old st down towards london wall on the last bit of the new cs1 because i thought i had a slow puncture and wanted to deal with it outside my office in case I had to bail and get the tube home because i'm too fucked to change a tube by this point.

late 30s/early 40s woman cyclist rides alongside me giving me about 1 foot of space (on a completely empty double lane road which has bollards so isn't even a main thoroughfare) then pulls across my front wheel so i have to brake to avoid contact with her back wheel. she then holds my line up to the (red) lights, which she jumps causing a motorbike to slow and go around her coming from the side with priority. I get down to eldon st behind liv. st station and having been through there the day before knew the road was completely closed half way down for crossrail works but I still only had to get off and walk 50 yds along the pavement and then i could get back on and ride around finsbury circus instead. so I ride through the line of cones blocking the entry to the road, avoiding the two big yellow "ROAD CLOSED, FOLLOW DIVERSION" signs, past the second line of cones with another "ROAD CLOSED" sign just before the closure and pull to the kerb and dismount by the pedestrian crossing just before the roadworks started to walk my way around.

at this point, the very angry (american) lady who had cut me up, emerges on foot pushing her bike back from behind the giant steamroller parked in the middle of the roadworks literally screaming at a workman having a cup of tea "WELL PUTTING UP A SIGN WOULD HAVE MADE THIS WALK A WHOLE LOT MORE COMFORTABLE" literally seething with rage.

was tempted to point out she'd ridden past numerous signs & cones and literally into a construction site and that from where she was stood the far end of the pavement she had to walk her bike along was clearly visible.

even then she puts her bike onto the pavement, immediately remounts it and rides at full tilt along the narrow pavement pinging her bell at pedestrians to get out of her way.

WAC

where was this?

Yeah sorry mate, that was me.

Just trying out a few disguises to assist in crime-fighting escapades. The 'Angry 39 year old American Woman' was always a tough one to pull off

Dunno if this is the place to do it but i wanna call out a fucing scumbag van driver from last week.
I was overtaking a queue of traffic on the right as there was no space on the inside, and a car swung out right to go up a side road hitting me off, and as i was picking myself and bike off the road to get out of the way, bear in mind im 19 and my face was bleeding pretty hard, this man leans out his window and shouts 'That was all your fucking fault, get off the fucking road'

No that's the reporting bad drivers thread. This is the correct thread if you now agree with the van driver and are calling yourself out.

Hope you heal up soon though, sounds nasty.