Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

You could walk through the tunnel pushing your bike, making "wheee!" noises under your breath, then reward yourself with a wank when you got home?

You could wank through the tunnel pushing your bike, making "wheee!" noises under your breath, then reward yourself with a walk when you got home?

tried that once got arrested

PLEASE STOP RIDING THROUGH THE GREENWICH FOOT TUNNEL. THIS INCLUDES 'SCOOTERING'.

I went through the tunnel recently and discovered the wonderfull new unmanned lifts.
The old ones had cctv and liftmen (lift operators ?) who would refuse lift use to anyone seen cycling* in the tunnel .

• but not 'scootering' which ,when discussed some time ago on here exempted yer fixie people.
  

but its fun

Like pavement cycling ?

there's too much stuff in the way on the pavement and you can't always see whats coming or who might step out so I tend not to

"tend not to?"

Is there any reason for not using the lane going North?

Not according to the plod I spoke to... But:

There was an unmarked City Police Shogun this evening parked up on the North/Queen St side. I asked what was going on & where cyclists/peds should cross and was told:

**There is NO access across the Olympic Lanes (on Lower Thames Street) to either cyclists or Ped's **! The olympic lanes have unrestricted flow and do not follow any traffic lights ! I replied - ok that's going to work then (whilst pads were running/scrambling across the road as the ped crossing was barriered off)!

Sounds like it could be a bit tricky crossing here - watch out for liveried up Beemers who are not stopping !!!!

That's in direct contradiction of this: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/city-a3211-lambeth-palace-road-to-tower-hill.pdf

Looks like plod is making up their own rules as they go along.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/a3211-lambeth-palace-road-to-tower-hill-map-10.pdf

wac.

"tend not to?"

tend/tend/
Verb:
Regularly or frequently behave in a particular way or have a certain characteristic: "written language tends to be formal".
Care for or look after; give one's attention to: "Viola tended plants on the roof"; "for two or three months he tended to business".

Like pavement cycling ?

Pavement cyclists are the real heroes (according to Dr Horton)
http://thinkingaboutcycling.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/heroes-of-british-cycling-bradley-wiggins-and-the-pavement-cyclist/

Pavement cyclists aren’t seen as heroes, but perhaps they should be.

No they're not. I've been to Whitechapel.

had to call out some complete dickhead who thought the best route to get past me (in primary) and the guy directly next to me (just outside the double yellows) would be to bomb through in secondary about 10mph faster than we were travelling (we'd just pulled away from lights so assume he hit them on green and was at speed). even though there'd been tons of room to go round my right hand side

so I get up to speed, draw along side him and the exchange goes something like this...

me "do you think that was the safest way to overtake me back there?"
aussie twat: "yeah"
me: "so you don't think it was unsafe to squeeze in between two moving cyclists when there's barely any room and your going faster than they are?"
AT: "nah"
me: "you do know it's safer and expected to pass people on the right though"
AT: "yeah, exactly"
me: "you do realise that's left not right"
AT: "well anyway I'm going this way points at side road on right hand side of road and pulls across my wheel"
AT(parting shot): "and anyways I get told off enough by the police I don't fucking need you doing it as well"

fucking beggars belief. he wasn't turning off either. I saw him for the next 4 miles RLJ'ing and whilst going pretty fast, putting fuck all distance between the cyclists who stopped at every light, slowed for dangerous traffic and generally rode like they weren't giant dickheads and himself.

aussie man in rapha top on silver geared (dawes I think) you win my dickhead cyclist of the week. thanks for putting me in a shit mood on my otherwise calm ride in.

oh and extra points for it being almost exactly the same spot that the other idiot took out my rear wheel by trying to undertake me as I slowed for traffic ahead at the start of this year.

^ Sounds like a complete and utter bellface. Maybe just needs a slap.

Going to call myself out too.

Guilford St to Russell Sq. Longer queue at the lights than there normally is because of 'Lympics lanes and temporary bollards innit.
As I'm approaching the back of the stationary traffic to filter through, a motorcyclist swerves in front thinking he can take the gap between a tradesman's van and a taxi. As is normally the case when this happens, he can't, and sits there blocking off my filtering route. Standard.

I get annoyed, and instead of being a good ickle cyclist and waiting patiently undertake between the motorbike and the rear of the van. Sod's law, I realise that at that undertaking angle, I can't get through the gap either. But I'm still angry, so I unclip and shuffle through, bodychecking the rear of the van as I go.

I was just going to cycle off, without even an apologetic wave to the driver. But he opens his door asking whether I was just going to cycle off. Still a bit peeved and now on the defensive, I angrily try to shirk blame saying that it was just skin on car with no damage, before reluctantly coming to my senses and just about manage to apologise in a still impolite way.

TL;DR. I hypocritically filtered through a gap that was too narrow. Body checked a stationary vehicle. Raised my voice at a driver clearly in the right.

Sorry handyman-driver-man. And sorry biking community for being a dick :(

By confessing your sin, you are absolved of it. Say ten Hail Mary's and be on your way my child.

Hissing works a treat.

Years ago I was hissed at on a street in Copenhagen for walking across while everyone else waited. I pretended not to notice, but I never forgot the experience.

Should we have a FB page: Hiss At Red?

They'll probably have headphones on so won't notice. Or be on the phone...

Yeah, yeah, daily fail comments >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Hissing works a treat.

Years ago I was hissed at on a street in Copenhagen for walking across while everyone else waited. I pretended not to notice, but I never forgot the experience.

Should we have a FB page: Hiss At Red?

Or maybe a very british "Booooo" ? (Or just shout wanker??)

There was an unmarked City Police Shogun this evening parked up on the North/Queen St side. I asked what was going on & where cyclists/peds should cross and was told:

There is NO access across the Olympic Lanes (on Lower Thames Street) to either cyclists or Ped's ! The olympic lanes have unrestricted flow and do not follow any traffic lights ! I replied - ok that's going to work then (whilst pads were running/scrambling across the road as the ped crossing was barriered off)!

Sounds like it could be a bit tricky crossing here - watch out for liveried up Beemers who are not stopping !!!!

This is fucking insane - and worse as it is my commute to work. Going to be fun, fun , fun next week

On Theobalds Road today, two guys pretty much hugging the curb. A bus just behind them, overtaking them safely, more than a metre to their right. I'm behind the bus, following it's rear left corner (but leaving enough space to deal with what was about to happen).

The second guy, who is wearing headphones, suddenly dives out from curb, without so much as as look behind, right in front of the bus, which had just reached his back wheel.

Bus does an emergency stop, the cyclist is completely oblivious to what just happened. I stop safely, and then carry on behind the bus. As I go past the cyclist I look round, and he just has no idea how close to serious injury he was.

We reach some red lights, and the bus, now well ahead of the cyclists, stops in the left lane, with about a foot between it and the curb. I head to the right lane, and stop in front. As the lights go green, the bus starts moving, but suddenly stops again, toots it's horn, and the same cyclist comes scraping out of the left side of the bus.

He looks at me, in a sort of "what just happened" look, I give him a disapproving look, and then shout "go around the bus" and signal he should have gone round. He still looks bewildered, and I head off.

Or maybe a very british "Booooo" ? (Or just shout wanker??)

The latter, it is a time honoured word within the English language afterall.

^^ I genuinely hate to say it but I fear we will be reading more about this guy in my least favourite thread in the near future. I pray he sorts himself out before that.

Saw a guy jump a light this morning on CS7 (South side of Southwark Bridge heading North). I comment to fellow cyclist sitting at red lights with me "what a dickhead", when a cop car pulls up an nicks the jumper. As I cycled past I had a laugh :)

I had a copper shout from his car,
"where's ya light? Get some lights!"
At me earlier, I had no light, he had loads so I guess we evened each other out.

He has a point. Get some lights.

He did have a very good point, I had a rear but the mount for the front was attached to a bike I left round a friends when too drunk too ride, I was extra careful and more soberer than normal.