Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Seriously thought, Dredd is fucking awesome, so much better (and surprisingly accurate) than the awful movie in the past.

mmmkaay

you posted on the bad cyclist thread, yet it appears that you pulled out when it was not safe to do so

Someone perceived kkkkkkkk to have pulled out when it wasn't safe to do so. There's no way you, Ed or anyone else can know whether they actually did.

Pulling out is never safe. Wear a condom

How do I rep this^

click 'comment'

I would as it cracked me up, but apparently i should spread it around.
so sending public rep

We need to report k for the abuse of drug otherwise known as the Slo-mo.

Fade on the right, who is on the left?

A young B&D?

Not quite sure if this is worthy of "calling out" but the man/lady wearing the giro TT aero helmet, riding always in the drops - slowly - flappy tracksuit on, red and chrome langster, undertaking stationary people and proceeding through red lights and pedestrian filled intersections (from Rosebury ave to Holborn). I would have been tsk tsk ing furiously to myself if you hadn't looked so amusing while doing so. I just do not understand.

I also don't understand my own paragraph...

"Not quite sure if this is worthy of "calling out" but the man/lady wearing the giro TT aero helmet, riding always in the drops - slowly - flappy tracksuit on, red and chrome langster, undertaking stationary people and proceeding through red lights and pedestrian filled intersections (from Rosebury ave to Holborn). I would have been tsk tsk ing furiously to myself if you hadn't looked so amusing while doing so. I just do not understand."

The aero helmet weighs out the flappy tracksuit, it's practically like riding naked.

It's a man, he been doing it for a while, got seatpost mounted rack?

Sort of calling myself out.

Crossing a cross road (not my right of way) I completely didn't see a guy coming down the crossing road and cut him up. Weird as I looked down the road, but I guess I was looking for cars. I must have been staring straight at him as well.

Does anyone else have those moments?

I have. That's when I realised how possible it is to look and not see. A little scary.

Everybody does. Read aaaaall of this article that I shamelessly stole from the Cycle Training subforum. It is aimed at drivers but applies to everybody: http://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/raf-pilot-teach-cyclists/

^ Excellent article
I was loosely familiar with some of the 'scanning' visual tricks used by pilots but this whole article is well worth a re-read.

Bit cheesy at the bottom but definitely helpful. I break the windscreen in the Cessna into 10 points. Good method that works for me out of the cockpit too.

Chubby guy with army backpack and leggings on a road bike going down shacklewell lane and left towards dalston at about 8:30am. Please stop pushing to the front of traffic queues, running red lights then cycling at 5mph.

Really worth reading, thanks.
I have done exactly this but only when driving I think.
While reading it I thought its a shame that Top Gear is such a dreadful programme. A section based on this article would be the sort of public service broadcasting the Beeb should be putting out. I can imagine Archcunt Clarkson and his revolting sidekick dressed up in flight suits getting all macho with the RAF in the Welsh valleys could be good TV if you like that kind of thing.

nurseholiday, did you think the call for 'Dutch style' cycling infrastructure was cheesy or ...?
I do feel a bit of a knob wearing a flouro windshirt but I KNOW it makes me more visible.
Road position and looking directly at drivers is vital too.

Really worth reading, thanks.
I have done exactly this but only when driving I think.
While reading it I thought its a shame that Top Gear is such a dreadful programme. A section based on this article would be the sort of public service broadcasting the Beeb should be putting out. I can imagine Archcunt Clarkson and his revolting sidekick dressed up in flight suits getting all macho with the RAF in the Welsh valleys could be good TV if you like that kind of thing.

nurseholiday, did you think the call for 'Dutch style' cycling infrastructure was cheesy or ...?
I do feel a bit of a knob wearing a flouro windshirt but I KNOW it makes me more visible.
Road position and looking directly at drivers is vital too.

No bits like this:

You need to be as methodical and deliberate as a fighter pilot would be

Fighter pilots say ‘Move your head – or you’re dead’

Clear your flight path!

don’t be a clown

Yes. Probably why it put me in mind of TopGear.

It reeks of over-enthusiasm and trying to get people to do something by making it sound more exciting than it is. But then I'm a grumpy old man so don't mind me.

Hey friends, have you tried this new craze? It's called looking properly, you know, so you see things instead of not seeing them and causing accidents. Apparently it's all the rage with fighter pilots! I know, how exciting, right? Oh I must dash, I haven't had my wheatgrass shooter with a wedge of orange, and I'm late for my appointment to make myself look really manly. Oh yes, didn't you see Beyonce at the Superbowl?

I'd love a few missiles for dealing with cretins on the road. It would make my cycling much safer.