Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Exprexxo

Matching square espresso cups and saucers?

Dude.

That's just taking it too far.

Son, I am disappoint.

Square cups is way to Hipster.

Triangle cups would be hipster. Square is hip though.

https://youtu.be/LB5YkmjalDg

Cyclists live/lifes aren't worth much....

Some interesting stats from here

Hackney represent.

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Someone should ask the Mayor's office why they release tables as images, it just makes it look like they don't want anyone to analyse them properly

They're minutes to a meeting, from the looks of the document and where it's hosted, and they'll likely add 2015 figures to these datasets soon.

I don't really understand the layout. Where is the "vehicle" listed and and what was hit in the 'hit and run'?

I'm assuming the hit and run covers all other road user groups, not just peds, as is usually inferred by the term.

Is the lack of a 'fatal' column in the pedal cycle section a glaring oversight or a bit of good news?

Obvious honesty isn't a top policy, obviously.

Only group of roadusers where it's most likely advised you hand yourself in and pay the sub £500 fine while saying you didn't see them at the time so drove off not knowing what the noise was.

A pretty minor call-out, but I was waiting in a queue on the cycle lane in Torrington Place this morning, and a few seconds before the lights changed a dude on a Brompton decided to start trackstanding, and did that pendulum-swing back and forth thing. The little extra rolly wheel on the back of his rack got caught in my front spoke, I asked him to watch out, and he had a go at me for rolling into the back of him. I hadn't moved! He was moving! The sheer injustice of it!

PDF version of the document here. The table above is rendered as a PDF, which would make it a bit easier to crunch if you were inclined. Completely agree that these raw numbers are useless for decision-making unless you happen to be a savant.
https://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/documents/s59293/Minutes-%20Appendix%203%20-%20Written%20answers%20-%20combined%20appendices%20A-L.pdf

Edited to add: crunched the numbers a bit to make them more useful in the attached.

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Am I getting old or is it getting more cool to ride with no hands even when it's clearly fucking dangerous? Some knob-end riding into Greenwich yesterday lunchtime, I overtook him in a car (giving much wide berth), then I slowed approaching some traffic to see him filter past, still no hands on bars, ped crosses the road through his path, guess what, he can't stop very quickly, wobbles whilst trying to brake and control the bike, just manages to avoid the ped and stay upright. I mutter something under my breath about hoping the prick has learnt his lesson, but no, 100 yards down the road (just approaching the busiest part of the one-way system) he's still filtering down the inside of a bus with no hands. sigh...

I can confirm this is now a thing, especially on longer stretches of CS7, indeed, there's almost an element of show-boating in many of the perpetrators' actions. As if LDN cycling isn't hairy enough...

Cold hands in pockets?

Maybe it was @photoben. He is of those parts and spent all of 2008 with his hands off the bars. The whole year.

Kids doing constant wheelies is weird, too.

Yes you can do a wheelie. I saw it. Well done. You can stop now.

I've been encouraging them to learn newer and better madskillz®. Fingers crossed they use their energy to develop newer moves.

Ha! I'm up in the Lake District so it certainly wasn't me.

And honestly @mashton you think I'd be wobbling? I'm hurt. We're OG fixie skidder crew.

Maybe they aren't doing it to be seen, maybe they are doing it for their own enjoyment? That my excuse....

Wheelies you say?

https://vimeo.com/151404277

Yes. Just this morning I was on Colebrook Row heading North when some melt came out of a side street no hands, and into my path. Didn't even look to see if there was anything coming from the opposite direction, let alone me.

What are you doing outside of SE1, anyway? :)