Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Spenceey, No idea, it always makes me giggle, they pedal like they've a rat up their arse to get across the lights, then not 100 yards later seem to run outta puff and practically stop....... I drift past will all the time in the world, no stress, just a steady pedal only for the same thing to happen at every junction........ It amazes me that the same illuminated brigade don't realise they're stressing and sweating to gain a yard, or 3 seconds to their journey end...... while in blissful harmony with my ride I get to work not stressed, not particularly sweaty (unless I woke up late and HAD to pedal like a loon), and with a smile - Personally I reckon it's the hi-vis thing, eye recognition engages the brain and panic ensues.......... Must be a hybrid thing...... I don't get it....

This sounds so typical of my commute. I actually quite enjoy riding to work - any time spent cycling it good time spent.

Wow, these speed demons must be super fit and muscular and even be able to create fire....... Man skills......

or.......

You're just super pretty.......... and apparently lacking any interest in mate flexing skills of your local riders.........

After having a week or so off from commuting on bike because of my back, I have again been enjoying the amount of people who speed up to overtake a girl and then slow back down again.

"LOOK AT ME PRETTY GIRL! I AM REALLY FAST AND FIT. I WOULD MAKE A SUITABLE MATE."

you probably have really bad gas and they're just trying to get upwind of you.

Let me make it clear. I am not the girl that they are overtaking, I am not a girl... I'll be riding at a constant speed, rapidly gaining on a nodder, who will then suddenly speed up so the closure rate slows right down, then as soon as they've passed the girl, they'll slow down again and I'll pass them. At first I thought they were just speeding up as they were overtaking, then I noticed a direct correlation between people speeding up when overtaking and the sex of the person they were overtaking.

you had sex with the people you were overtaking? Disgusting.

I prefer sex when undertaking on a corner.

you had sex with the people you were overtaking? Disgusting.

I thought you had to otherwise it doesn't count as overtaking?

Sit on wheel and stare at arse or overtake and be thought a plonker. Tough choice.

Arse. Always.

Arse, no credibility lost to a decent arse......

A biker tried to run me off the road by undertaking me when with a bus directly in front when I shouted he told me to F off. Nice guy! I am quite enjoying the mild weather but I'm looking forward to when all the fair weather cyclists F off themselves until next April when they will be pushing to get in front of me at the lights.

Sit on wheel and stare at arse

Only upside

or overtake and be thought a plonker. Tough choice.

Only downside

Tough choice.

Really?

you had sex with the people you were overtaking? Skillz!!

Fixed ;D

Totally agree, any pedalling time is quality time, and even better in good company........ Anyone riding from Clapton toward TCR, would be good to know some faces, morning grunts exchanged whatever the weather.......

This sounds so typical of my commute. I actually quite enjoy riding to work - any time spent cycling it good time spent.

Back on thread, To the Doris riding a blue Emmelle 'squeaker', no, in answer to your rather shocked face, no, I feel no shame whatsoever in calling you out in several groups of riders for being completely dangerous in the saddle....... swerving in narrow bike lanes, trying to sprint and puffed out after 20 strokes and swerving ever wider, (I would saying running RL's here, but running is the last thing you were capable of), for berating a ped for crossing on THEIR green light, for shouting at a bus for ACTUALLY being in the bus lane and, shock, stopping at a bus stop - no, you cannot claim 'murderer' because you decided to head up Kerb side of the bus, simple logistics should have taught you that you stood no chance..... Then, at Dalston Junction when, admittedly on my part, asking rather sarcastically if you had a balance issue, why did you feel it reasonable to drop your bike and point a wagged finger at me......had you lost the skill of voice? were you so cross that words failed you? or was it the realisation that lights had gone green, and said 'shout at' bus driver was laughing his tits off at the sheer lunacy of your very existence....... You ARE ridiculous, as I clearly stated..... do not ride again, ever...... I'm still giggling my nuts to a paste as I type about an insane image....... retardo!

She sounds like Jaygee's favourite fellow commuter. The one speed girl, nothing will stop her.

My adventures tonight: moving from the green light a cyclist on my right tries to turn left in front of me woah! we avoided collision and I almost got t-boned by another cyclist who came through the red light on the right.

And then I joined the CS7....

^awesome gif

It's the monster that lives on the CS7. Be safe people, do not stop or it will catch you.

I've noticed a lot more cars jumping reds recently- am I alone in this observation?

Predominantly Walworth Raod/Old Kent Road/Camberwell Road/Kennington Road.

I'm used to the "amber gamble", but the cars in question have been going through on full red, a noticeable time after it has changed.

I've noticed that a lot, too. I have long thought that cyclists' red-light jumping is being imitated increasingly by drivers. It's always been there, but recently to me, too, it has become much more blatant.

There is a fairly respectable theory that if all participants in traffic followed 'the rules', there would be far fewer problems, as we would all know what we'd be doing. :)

^odd, even in the last few days I have noticed more cars are jumping reds on Lever Street and Old Street. It's annoying because they always get stuck in the middle of the junction.

I prefer sex when undertaking on a corner.

it's fine as long as you shout "coming up on your inside" as an early warning

^^ yep. I also noticed that myself. Yesterday I saw a lorry go through a red light when the light had been on red for a few seconds.

it's fine as long as you shout "coming up on your inside" as an early warning

A gentlemen never comes, they arrive.

"arriving on your inside!"

Er... that sounds gross.

Everyone must have been shotgunning cans of special brew at breakfast this morning as it was noddergeddon on my route. There was a particular eagerness to wedge selves to the left of vehicles clearly indicating to turn left. You'd think that by adulthood, people would have spotted the correlation between a person indicating an intention via blinky lights and actually fulfilling that intention, and so making appropriate decisions as a result. I dunno.
I guess there are a variety of reasons for it, such as the sense that the extreme left of any lane is for cyclists. Silly.
Then I came within a whisker of side ramming some girl who pulled out from a side road then stopped in the middle of the lane for reasons I did not have time to ponder in depth. I would also like to thank the woman on the dutch bike who RLJd on Old Street Roundabout across my bows. That was bracing.
It's difficult in most cases to effectively communicate to the cyclist in question why what they did was perhaps unwise while you are both riding, and posting in this thread is unlikely to have much impact on their behaviour for obvious reasons, and may just increase the amount of smug in the atmosphere. However as I have bike cam footage of all the above which I can throw into my 'how not to do it' video whenever I get round to doing it, hopefully I can use these unsuspecting case studies to some good purpose eventually. I don't know if anyone has done any 'how to ride in London' type video, but a 'how not to' would also probably be a useful angle if e.g. the Evening Standard decided to run something on how to survive as a cyclist in London. Have they ever done such a thing?
On the subject of bike cams, I really thought I would be getting more bad driving than bad cycling footage, but not the case at all. I guess it's down to seasonal cycling factors, and perhaps the way I ride. Hmm hmm.

Number on in my list of bike rules:
http://baconwolf.blogspot.com/2011/07/bike-rules.html

"However, those who drive, cycle or walk with care, skill and grace should be met with an appreciative smile and a nod. And a reacharound if you have the time."

So that's what happened to me the other day!