Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

"...the peoples writer..." (sic)

It's about 2 pages long and reads like someone has copy/pasted the Daily mail comments section from an article about cycling.

I have noticed a steady uptick in the number of riders of electric bikes who go at ridiculous speeds along the towpath and perform dodgy overtakes at pinch points. I need to start carrying some kind of lance with which I can gently bat them into the river.

I hate them as I've had to add an entire page to my risk assessment for the weekend about them.

https://www.wikihow.com/Build-an-EMP-Generator

About to turn right as lights change, rhs of asl Wobbly triathlete on tt bike on aero bars rolls through as lights change, hes on my right to go straight no control if i'd turned without shoulder check & realising he was there at last mo.

Maybe myself, I don't know.

Riding on the A503 in to Camden where it turns in to Bayham street and the gyratory . There's a traffic lit pedestrian crossing right on the apex of the bend. I have the lights, but pedestrians are stepping out anyway because reasons. Out steps a young woman. She has her headphones in and is looking down at her phone. She does not check the road. I adjust to go around the back of her but at the last minute she looks up, clocks me then steps backwards putting us on a direct collision course. This is basically my Charlie A moment. Fortunately I'm on an MTB with 2.3" tyres at 20psi and four pot hydralic callipers, so jamming on the anchors I come to complete stop ending half a foot in front of her. She offers me a 'sorry' in reply to my 'ohhhh fuuuuucccccccccck'.

100% her fault, but also 10% yours.

(Although you managed to stop it sounds like you were riding too fast for the conditions.)

What’s considered too fast?

Too fast to stop before X. Too fast to react in time to avoid Y.

All-black Rapha-all-the-things wanker swung off High St Ken and blasted through a crowd of people already crossing the side road next to the Daily Mail building (boo-hiss). How he didn't crash into two or three of the peds (esp. the woman tourist with the massive suitcase) is beyond me and certainly beyond him too - definitely luck rather than judgement. I hope you're not on here because that was a complete dick move. And yes, I was the ped that called you a wanker.

I think I've seen this guy before as well... I always call cyclists wankers down High St Ken as they seem to be oblivious to the various sets of traffic lights down said road.

Dear curb huggers and cycle line painted on the road next to parked cars is safer idiots

I don't know about you but every time I pass you all doing that my heart races with the amount of cut ups, step outs, near death, truck turning, undertaking that happens. Please ignore my emotional responses but see the love in my advice.

Hugging the curb is not a safe place to be. One Love.

Too many to single out especially in the rush hour of London .

PS. special shout out to the 3 people that got cut up by a construction truck yesterday evening near bruce grove. I saw that shit a mile away. You were hugging the curb the truck overtook you and turned left like your lives didn't matter. I passed by on the outside and did the Bird call. Please don't do it again I nearly had a heart attack.

There are traffic lights? ;)

I passed by on the outside and did the Bird call

tf is the Bird call?

Twat on a ebike undertaking, shoaling, jumping red lights, riding on the pavement all the way from Kennington to Streatham. When called out pretend that he couldn't hear me and just rode off into the traffic. WAC!

High St Ken is basically just one long heavily polluted obstacle course.

Its a rooster call.

You'll know it when you hear it DAWS

Some absolute military spec fuckendery this morning.

I'm slowing for a zebra crossing where a family with young children are starting to cross. Some massive fucking swab on a silver with blue highlights gravel-ish bike with tanwalls blasts past me on the inside almost taking me off and does a shuddering endo right up the small children, then as soon as they are an inch past him blasts off and proceeds ride like a staggering cunt until I lose sight of him.

If you are on here, you ride like a cunt, fucking sort it out.

i'm torn here - is this bad cyclist or bad driving

i watching a black merc in front of me in our tight car parking area at work, pulls off the "lane" used to access all the bays, over across 4 parking bays and start to swing left in a semi circle to reverse into one of them - not once does the merc stop

cyclists 2 meters behind the black merc when the merc left the "lane" decides to continue at speed in the "lane" but then shouts abuse at merc because it doesnt stop in its manoeuvre or sees the cyclist and almost hits her

personally i look at things as if i was in a car when cycling - if i was in a car and saw what the merc is doing, reversing into the lane , no way would you thread through the "lane" with a risk of getting bashed in the side, nor would you force the merc to stop its semi-circle manoeuvre just so you can squeeze through - for sure i'm narrower as a cyclist, but common sense suggests your risk is higher and just to simply wait....?

I've witnesses so many dangerous e-bike riders recently, performing similar antics to what you mentioned

Both, as is the usual cocktail for moments like that!
Poor judgement on the part of the cyclist (assume people haven't seen you), poor observation on the part of the motorist (didn't seem to know there was a cyclist behind them and didn't give themselves time to look for one).

Step 1
get lights flashing front and back

Step 2
DAWS

Step 3
Bird Call

Some absolute military spec fuckendery this morning.

I'm slowing for a zebra crossing where a family with young children are starting to cross. Some massive fucking swab on a silver with blue highlights gravel-ish bike with tanwalls blasts past me on the inside almost taking me off and does a shuddering endo right up the small children, then as soon as they are an inch past him blasts off and proceeds ride like a staggering cunt until I lose sight of him.

If you are on here, you ride like a cunt, fucking sort it out.

Agreed. Not saying I would've done the same...Endo pretty cool...Sounds like a different bike to mine ...so I am pretty sure wasn't me...but I ride like a cunt depending on what's happening around me and feel a lot safer for it. Also everyone knows that Wednesdays are cunt days on the road. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9_1eujdVpI&t=45s