Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

^^yes, it was Rod Liddle. Just a short, lame, clarkson-esque bit of nonsense on the corner of the page. I briefly felt like killing his children and extracting their organs, then I found something more important to do.

Without reading the article I've got to say he's kind of right.

Because, although the increase in cycling leads to the population being generally healthier and living longer the organs harvested when they do eventually die will be of use to others, unlike the withered and diseased livers, kidneys and brains of lazy journos who only get off their arses to move from the bar to the restaurant.

Brains, Lazy Journo's - There's a concept........

..... however, I've been riding in Ho Chi Minh this weekend. The mesmeric volume of traffic has increased on a massive scale to that I fist saw here 15 years ago. Yes, there's a tonne of bad cyclists and moped riders filtering amongst buses and cars and pedestrians that walk out in front of you with very little apparrent observation of what's around them.
9 hours saddle time this weekend, and I saw one accident, and it was a guy with no legs, walking around on stools strapped to his stumps and not being seen by veichles. Not something we'd exerience back on our wondrous streets back in London is London.
The speed of traffic here is slower in general, trunk traffic is restricted to late night only, the accident rate (purely by observation) is vastly less than we experience in the UK. It's an attitude thing, you get there when you get there and you get there how you can. The difference being 2 wheels were King here a long time before the 4 wheeled monster arrived, and 2 wheels remains King.

If we had even the smallest of mindset shifts, then this thread would be virtually redundant, and replaced with 'Biggest thing you saw on two wheels' thread.

For the record, a fussball table on the back of a moped, one handed and talking to his pal.......

Called out a guy earlier, quite politely though. I'd just strapped the kid to the bike (ziptie thread >>>) to drop her off at the childminders and he came tooteling out of a road on the left without even the slightest glance towards me. I went with "Whooa! Do you reckon you could look before pulling out please?" He apologised as I passed him, probably good for him I wasn't one of the numerous speeding cars on my road.

"Mate, your helmet won't be as effective in the event of a crash if you don't do up the strap."

Felt like knocking it off as I overtook him.

doesnt really make him a bad cyclist tho.

If someone called me out for not strapping up my helmet I'd tell them to do one.

..... however, I've been riding in Ho Chi Minh this weekend.

i cycled into then out of ho chi minh a few years ago and it was mental!

i actually took a video as well of all the mopeds riding on the pavement due to roadworks.

if i ever get round to it i'll post it up here.

saw 3 moped crashes with the riders on the floor the morning i cycled out of ho chi minh

doesnt really make him a bad cyclist tho.

If someone called me out for not strapping up my helmet I'd tell them to do one.

You'd win then.

fist pump.

doesnt really make him a bad cyclist tho.

If someone called me out for not strapping up my helmet I'd tell them to do one.

The only reason I'd be riding with a helmet on and without it strapped up is because of some brain wrong causing me not to realise I hadn't done it up.

I'd thank them.

Although this conversation reminds me of the old bloke who pulled alongside me at the lights once and told me off for not wearing a helmet, when he himself had his helmet on so wrong on the back of his head he'd likely crush his windpipe and break his spine if he had even a minor off.

...the accident rate (purely by observation) is vastly less than we experience in the UK. It's an attitude thing, you get there when you get there and you get there how you can. The difference being 2 wheels were King here a long time before the 4 wheeled monster arrived, and 2 wheels remains King.

If we had even the smallest of mindset shifts, then this thread would be virtually redundant, and replaced with 'Biggest thing you saw on two wheels' thread.

Sorry dude but this is complete rubbish. When I was in Vietnam I saw three moped riders die in road accidents in a month, but in any event, that's no way to assess a country's road safety.

If you look at the actual statistics, you'll see Vietnam has roughly 16 people killed per 100,000 inhabitants per year, and 1240 people killed per 100,000 motor vehicles. The UK's figures are 3.6 and 7 respectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

Don't apologise, no offence taken. I said it was by observation, my point is less about statistics and more about the manner in which people ride/drive on the same roads - despite the chaos it's actually more harmonious than what we experience in London. It's an observation, and not grounded in fact or statistics - I never said it was.

Last month or so I've noticed, especially on my route from Holborn to LB, not so much bad cyclists as bad road users on bikes. Seem to think that sitting on the right hand side of the lane at lights when you want to turn left and vice versa is the correct thing to do. Then getting all pissed of when the tarmac they are trying to turn across suddenly becomes full of bikes and cars. Wonder if it's to do with the 'lympics putting a lot more new cyclists on London's roads (a good thing) who either aren't used to them or just don't know good/basic road etiquette.

there is a guy that I see on my route to work quite often. on the hipster highway from hackney road through to clerkenwell rd usually at about 9:15. The guy has a 50's/ 60's burgundy road bike, and a lime green bmx lid. Has absolutly no consideration for anyone else on the road. weaving in and out of everywhere, undertaking and RLJing. anyone else seen him?

How about this fellow...

http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/court-crime/mystery_cyclist_faces_judge_after_night_in_police_cell_over_hampstead_heath_bike_ride_1_1484800

Phil Saunders, solicitor for the City of London Corporation, said: “The man still won’t tell us his name and we don’t quite know how to deal with it.”....
The cyclist continued to refuse to reveal his name but bowed to the judge and said in a booming foreign accent “Good day to you, gentlemen and ladies!” before he spun on his heel and made a dramatic exit court.

The British legal system brought to its knees if you simply refuse to give your name, good to know.

I really don't care how fast you were going! The relative who suffered a broken hip is scared of ANY people riding on the pavement as I'm sure are many other people regardless of speed!

I'd rather be thought of as square than thought of as a monumental bellend any day of the week!

Hang in one minute. Are you seriously suggesting riding at 7mph is scarier or more dangerous than jogging at 10+mph?

Most mornings I meet a woman in full noddergalia at Hammersmith broadway who gets off at Clapham Junction like me but leaves at a different exit. I always wondered how she beats me seeing as I ride like the wind, so this morning I followed her pedculiar path and it turns out she jumps every red. Saw her whizz through the New Kings Road and Fulham Road reds without even slowing down.

She is one of those ignorant bellwhiffs who scoot down the busy platform on the pedals too.

Head-down arse-up twunt rear ended someone behind me this morning in Parson's Green.

Coming up to pedestrian crossing I'd seen someone (the other side of a car) possibly about to cross and so I was feathering the brakes.
Woman on bike in front of me sees the pedestrian late and skids to a stop.
Bloke(1) behind her brakes hard and stops in time.
I brake quite hard and stop in time.
Bloke(2) behind me also slowing down in time.
Bloke(3) behind him not paying enough attention and takes out the bloke behind me. Luckily they don't skittle as far as me.
Everyone else stops in time.

Now I've run into the back of someone myself once, but at least I had the decency to admit it was my fault and understand how I'd let it happen.

Not Bloke(3). Didn't hear much of an apology from him by the time I'd left them.

I blame Strava.

Hmm, life on the OKR is getting a bit fraught. I am having to deploy extra resources of inner calm in order to avoid getting wound up by the constant undertaking and general crap riding. Last week I was toying with the idea of abandoning commuting by bike after 20 years of it, but this morning's sunshine and zen has saved the day.

Oh, and by the way, here you go:

^^^ You don't get bricks laid like that these days. Look at the shoddy job on the modern layer on the top course.
Building p0rn anyone?

Flemish Bond I believe, considered to be one of the prettiest in brickworking.

As opposed to Old English Bond, or Stretcher Bond, obviously...

Flemish Bond I believe, considered to be one of the prettiest in brickworking.

As opposed to Old English Bond, or Stretcher Bond, obviously...

Yea, mostly Flemish, but what's with the short run of headers in courses 2 and 4 below the N and K of the sign?

If you look it's also in the course 2 above as well, and I suspect behind the roadsign.

I'd guess that it's something to do with the exact length that the wall needed to be. As it's by the street sign, that might suggest that it's towards the end of the wall, and the builder knew that unless that was done, the wall would be half a brick too long.

Is it time to start calling out bad bricklayers thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>