Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Commuter useless nodder twats

There may be a useful acronym.

What are you getting at prancer?

/pretends to be naive

^ I honestly believe that people who cycle like this regularly and don't get hurt they take it as some kind of affirmation that they are doing nothing stupid or wrong.
This kind of behavior is discussed a lot in avalanche safety training too. People who regularly travel in a dangerous environment (backcountry mountains, London streets) are susceptible to confirmation bias when identifying risks. 49 times out of 50 you'll get away with risky manouvers and poor decisions and **until **that 50th time, it appears to be "100% safe".

^ Cheers Yemble that makes a lot of sense and I can particularly relate to it, especially when I recall the stupid risks I took when skiing off piste when I was young. Always justifying the risks to myself by saying "it'll never happen to me".

Prancer and I were waiting at a set of lights on Chiwick High Street this evening when behind us came this squeaky, impatient 'excuse me'. Before I could look round, this total tit barged between us, jumped through the lights and made a pathetic dash to the next lights which he actually was forced to stop at due to traffic crossing the other way.

needless to say, it wasn't long before we'd overtaken his sorry arse. muppet.

It's starting to sound like dj is becoming you, and you are becoming dj, in a 3rd Policemanesque manner.

^ the difference being I just laughed at the guy, James wanted to 'twat the cnut'.

James wanted to 'twat the cnut'.

Yo Dawg...

Colour me shocked.

Pretty much by definition you have to be a sociopath to drive a Porsche on the public highway.

True. I've been purposely clipped by a Porsche (or budget-wannabe-Porsche) before. I still find it shocking though.

As a Porsche owner I'm offended by that,

Who throws a shoe?

How else do stray shoes find themselves on the road?

Driving through London today, and MOT'ing the car I was amused a the cyclists and impatient drivers pulling out and they will stop for me mentality. Yes it was the porsche and yes it passed.

Team fair weather cyclists have successfully scored 2 points from me in the past couple of days...

I think it was last Fri or sth, I was going down to Elephant and Castle and there was this guy cycling really really slow, I think he at some stage stuck his finger into his month too. The most annoying thing was, he was riding right bang into the middle of the lane, and all of a sudden he decided to stop, the drive behind him was a little impatient so she decided to get into the cycle lane to go pass him. Ouch... I was there... I WAS BLOODY THERE!!!

And then today, there was this woman, she couldn't even ride a straight line... I was approaching the red light, instead of going well inside the cycle box, she blocked the passage, but I thought I am not in a rush, let's not bother with the "excuse me..." Man, that was a mistake, when the green light came on, she showed her true cycling ability; she nearly crashed onto me, not once, but twice, because she couldn't cycle a straight line!! And she smiled at me when her very innocent smile, that smile told me it was probably her first day being on a bicycle ever! I finally took her over, but due to busy traffic, I bumped into her again by Camberwell Green, oh my god... there she was, went well ahead of all cyclists while waiting at the red light, but what she'd forgotten is, she can't actually cycle! It was kind of funny watching a fellow cyclist being "blocked" by her...

Team fair weather cyclists, you win! I am getting the bus tomorrow! Or not...

As a Porsche owner I'm offended by that

All of the things a Porsche can do which a Fiesta can't have no place on the public highway. Do you think it's socially responsible to piss away resources on capabilities you can't use, or to use capabilities you shouldn't? This point is not narrowly confined to Porsche, it applies to pretty much all 'sports' cars.

These are the ones that really need our encouragement and patience as it'd be all too easy for her to drive.^^

All of the things a Porsche can do which a Fiesta can't have no place on the public highway. Do you think it's socially responsible to piss away resources on capabilities you can't use, or to use capabilities you shouldn't? This point is not narrowly confined to Porsche, it applies to pretty much all 'sports' cars.

My car has more comfy seats than a fiesta of the equivalent age......sounds nicer (that may mean a silencer has no silencing material left some where) mind you the truck has the most comfortable seat of all.

Also this is the first time the car has turned a wheel under its own steam in more than three years.

Last socially responsible Porsche:

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I had a twat on a fixed bike and a twat on a single speed bike overtake on either side of me on Euston road then both have to emergency stop because there was a fucking bus in front of me. Grade A morons.

Last socially responsible Porsche:

Men with such facial hair must be very environmentally friendly. I doubt I'll be its owner by the end of September.

(Actually can you ever use the term socially responsible with Porsche, Volkswagen or Mercedes)

can we add bad cycle campaigners into the mix?

http://voleospeed.blogspot.com/2011/07/cycling-is-dangerous.html

well meaning no doubt, but doing little to encourage cycling uptake.

^ from that blog

"People who get on bikes in traffic quickly realise they have no protection other than their own physical capabilities and wits. They discover that they are totally on their own. Nobody and nothing will protect them"

He says that like it's a negative thing...

He does make some pertinent points elsewhere though
http://voleospeed.blogspot.com/2011/06/team-green-britain-tosh.html

[INDENT]"Dawn Porter, TV presenter and keen cyclist says: “Cycling is my favourite way to get around town but I never leave home without my trusty puncture repair kit and Allen key! I encourage everyone to get to a Team Green Britain Bike Week event to pick up a few useful cycle maintenance tips and take advantage of the bike fixes to help you make the most of cycling in the summer months”.

dur?
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@RPM, yeah he's got a good point, though the problem with a proper cycling infrastructure in London is that it could all look like the "walled" path over Southwark bridge /shudder

We have cycling infrastructure, in fact they're excellent.

we call them road.

I see probably 1 person per day on my commute undertake buses or lorries dangerously (I know I shouldn't, but I will do this if 1) I have seen the light change and know it cannot move, 2) if it is incapable of going left OR right). Today it was a dude at the left hand turn from Clapham Park Road onto Clapham Common South. He undertook a bus, stayed about its back wheel as it was actually within the turn, and kept around the area as it went through the curve to the first stoplight. I said, "You know that's how people are dying, right?" but carried on as I get a bit shy after I say shit like that. He caught up with me at the next light and more or less said, "Huh?" I said at least 6 people died last year undertaking left turning large vehicles. After ages of wishing I could tell somebody that I finally did. I think I did it too fast, though; wish I'd had a speech I'd practiced enough for it to roll off my tongue in the moment...

A twit on a shiny new phixeh blew me out at the lights today, in to a one way [wrongway] pedestrian zone too fast for a "CNUT" but I could hear the shouting as I went passed the junction [chuckling] then I was overtaken at the next lights by a lady with a very billowy dress and no bloody pants! note to self: buy helmet cam for grins.