Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Plus it's really annoying overtaking the same person repeatedly only to have them catch up at a red light, trundle through and the pattern be repeated.

I certainly don't think I'm important and I don't RLJ but I can't say that others RLJing bothers me. Just interested to get someone else' take on it that's all.

Yeah sorry I didn't mean you as in you.

It shouldn't bother me, but it does. At least I've learnt not to start arguments about it, because they're a complete waste of everyone's time.

Some days though...grrrrrrrrrrrr

Well said both.

I largely agree, but it should be noted that signalised junctions only exist because of motor traffic. Junctions between peds and cyclists and more often than not unsignalised as the negotiation is on a much more level playing field.

True, but that's not really an excuse to invent your own rules of the road (again not you). There's lots of motor traffic, so there are traffic lights.

I only have beef when the RLJer is being a proper prick. Riding through while people are crossing or scaring the shit out of drivers who are in the right.
There are too many other occasions to bother about being annoyed about it. I'd be annoyed all the time on my commute, and not being annoyed is one of the reasons I ride rather than sit in a metal tube to work.

Some 'bad cyclists' being called out here by Alex Deane, who just happens to be David Cameron's ex chief of staff. Sounds like clickbait bull to me... http://www.cityam.com/251930/londons-fanatical-cyclists-hell-taking-crazy-risks

that picture and caption is some next level meta af. presumably his concern for (what looks like) the homeless guy on the pavement will be in next weeks issue.

You have a responsibility not to trash the brand. At present, it seems that you want others to obey all the rules that protect you, but you don’t want to obey the rules that protect others.

'the brand'

#torybritain

'you cyclists'

He's talking about the nation's sweetheart Russell Brand, I think you'll find.

'le brand' I think you'll find.

That guy's a tit.

0 people killed by pavement cyclists.

37 killed by pavement drivers last year.

what an absolute load of shit

Yup, it's easy to pick and choose the laws you might like to obey/break, anarchy would be around the corner.

Yeah like one way streets ;)

I always "enjoy" it when the motorists leave the green ASL cycle box free for a change, I get lots of room behind me and lo and behold somebody rolls through red as it's green for the peds.

Doesn't endanger anyone, just makes me wonder why I bother sometimes to follow the highway code as I could do the same. Of course that way slippery slopes lie and before you know it we all will be skidding brakeless though reds :P

There are no rules for pedestrians as they were here first and it is hard to kill someone by walking into them.

There are lots of rules for motorists I guess for the opposite of the above.

Shoehorning bicycle traffic into a framework for controlling motorised vehicles has never made sense.

Red lights should be considered 'yields' on all but the busiest and complex junctions.

RLJ all day and no get catched.

RLJ all day and no get catched.

That would make a great tshirt

^ Old bill are jokes

Several times I've almost had collisions with twats jumping reds into junctions I'm green to go on.

No, fuck those guys.

Red lights should be considered 'yields' on all but the busiest and complex junctions.

Yes, so much. I'd even go as far as to support a left turn through red for motorised trafic as they have in so many other countries but changing things now would just be a disaster.

I knew Alex Deane at university. I can confirm that he is a ladle faced tool.

Red lights should be considered 'yields' on all but the busiest and complex junctions.

For bikes only, or for all traffic types?

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/millionaire-investment-banker-fined-after-leading-police-on-chase-through-london-while-on-his-bike-a3379896.html

I found it all very entertaining until the last paragraphs.

During sentencing at City of London Magistrates' Court yesterday, chair of the bench, Catherine Hobey-Hamsher, said the offence "diminishes the really rather low esteem cyclists already have", adding "people do not like cyclists, and you are doing nothing to enhance their reputation".

Just fucking Woow....are the daily mail beaming comments directly into her brain ?