Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

^^ Why not send him an open letter via his employer saying more or less this. If you try to stop him for a chat he sounds like the sort of guy who will guaranteed fuck you right off by being a giant bell, your blood pressure will rise and then you're just wasting your energy not getting your point across.

The dog was trying not to run, and it was 5pm in london fields.

= hundreds of shit cyclists coming the other way making stupid overtaking maneuvers and looking at their phones., dog too pissed off to avoid them, my heart was in my mouth,

I can't judge the mood of dog the from behind but in principle it looks ok, the path is wide and straight and there isn't too much traffic. If he's riding too fast for the dog to keep up then ok, he's riding irresponsibly. I didn't see it or an familiar with the path but in principle riding with a dog is ok as long as the dog is well trained and used to it i.e match your pace and not dart at things or across your path. I have a terrier at home I ride with at home and he's superb with the bike.

I'd also say riding fixed is superb for riding with a dog, as your control at slow speed is so much better.

^^ Why not send him an open letter via his employer saying more or less this. If you try to stop him for a chat he sounds like the sort of guy who will guaranteed fuck you right off by being a giant bell, your blood pressure will rise and then you're just wasting your energy not getting your point across.

Good point well made. I can assure you I'm not a violent man(not swung a punch since age 14) and perhaps the official route is the best course. Will draft a message and sleep on it.
Also, arguing with some pellet in front of the boss and our employer(pimped out private hospital) would not be a good look. It's been a fucking mare trying to prune trees all week above patients, ambulances, an endless stream of taxis and cars(and at one point Corny) and everythings gone super smooth until he came along and fucked with my karma.

Basically the whole of Rosebery Ave is a free-for-all-RLJ-noddergedden. Makes me mad each morning and evening.

This is an awesome comment. LOL I just have to smile. I have been good recently and haven't RLJ'ed but since stopping what gets me is the beginner cyclists do it now at the lights, undertake you while you are track standing sometimes even brush you or they go to the imaginary box before the box. LOL. I love it though its funny and this comment is exactly what you experience down that road everyday.

This morning I saw some epic wtf riding.

I was cycling up Ball's pond road at the junction with Essex road, I was going across the junction in to St Paul's Road towards Highbury corner.

I cycled across the junction in primary and someone on an orange ss or fixed bike overtook me wide, he then proceeded to swing even wider around the right-hand side of the traffic coming from the other direction down St Paul's road and then swung back and continued cycling up the road?!

Saw him too. With headphones and an all matte black bike. We had a chat. Seemed like a pretty chilled out rider. But seemed pretty confident though. Brakeless as well. Yeah Bwoy.

This is for all the bad moped "don't have a license" Learner undertaking sons of Bit@%$s. Who try and go where us riders go. Who undertake cyclists instead of overtaking safely, who cut in between packs, go in cycle only boxes. You ignorant Muthas I am coming for you.

I will block you path swerve in front of you and slow you down at every light. Then whip skid in front of you just because and if we decide to battle it out you unfit, pot-belly sit on your arse riders. I will service your gut.

PS. See you soon.

City Sprint courier, delivering to St John and St Elizabeth's hospital at around 11.30am today...

What bizarre is how he's willing to risk his live for City Sprint.

The man deserves a promotion.

Not on a public forum obviously.
He's there every day like clockwork apparently so I'll give him a chance to apologise for his actions before I go to his boss.
I've been pretty shook up about it all day since it happened. Nearest miss with a member of public I've seen in 6yrs of tree work in london. I value my life so stay the fuck out of the way when shit gets real and don't appreciate having to risk it cos one person doesn't value theirs and thinks they can dodge half a dozen branches falling towards them.

Well, I originally meant shop to his boss, but actually on second thoughts...

.. that might just result in him getting trouble / the sack, when the reason he's cycling like a twat is almost certainly their piss poor pay and working conditions. Sooooo in retrospect maybe don't shop, unless he is unresponsive to a polite word about the risks of mad fixie skiddrs under tree surgery?

On High Holborn this a.m, waiting at the lights to turn up Grays Inn Road. Get the green and with a taxi behind me accelerating the right hand turns becomes a pinch point (as it does every morning). So a girl in blue-plaid shirt, on fixed with silver mudgardes undertakes at the narrowest point and shoots ahead. I nearly, nearly told her off. Terrible move. She seemed pretty 'on here' so if you are, let's discuss this.

On High Holborn this a.m, waiting at the lights to turn up Grays Inn Road. Get the green and with a taxi behind me accelerating the right hand turns becomes a pinch point (as it does every morning). So a girl in blue-plaid shirt, on fixed with silver mudgardes undertakes at the narrowest point and shoots ahead. I nearly, nearly told her off. Terrible move. She seemed pretty 'on here' so if you are, let's discuss this.

You were so outraged that you almost said something ? That's it, you've gone native, you're English now.

Well just after the turn there's a zebra crossing and then 3/4 of the left lane is taken up with CrossRail works so it's not a very safe place for a tutting or a sternly voiced 'do you mind Ms, that was not a very safe manouver'

Oh my god what have I become

Last night on Theobald's Rd, black guy on a chrome plug with baby blue deep V's, baseball cap, big headphones, bandana around mouth. RLJ'd at speed as a mother was crossing with pushchair, on the green man. I caught you up and called you out and you said "yeah and?". I really do belive the attitude of cyclists like you is responsible for the ambivalence of much of the motoring public to the road safety of cyclists.

Oh my god what have I become

Don't worry, at least you're still American enough to invoke God.

But He invented freedom so I have to!

Well, I originally meant shop to his boss, but actually on second thoughts...

.. that might just result in him getting trouble / the sack, when the reason he's cycling like a twat is almost certainly their piss poor pay and working conditions. Sooooo in retrospect maybe don't shop, unless he is unresponsive to a polite word about the risks of mad fixie skiddrs under tree surgery?

He got a serious ear bashing from me earlier. Calmly pointed out what a tool he was and that a bit of common sense goes a long way. 3 signs, 2 dudes trying to stop you and loads of falling branches means maybe stop. Dodging taxis is easy in comparison.
Got a half hearted apology and lame excuses about his deadlines. Definitely a massive wanker but such is life.

Last night on Theobald's Rd, black guy on a chrome plug with baby blue deep V's, baseball cap, big headphones, bandana around mouth. RLJ'd at speed as a mother was crossing with pushchair, on the green man. I caught you up and called you out and you said "yeah and?". I really do belive the attitude of cyclists like you is responsible for the ambivalence of much of the motoring public to the road safety of cyclists.

Should have led with the Kidney Punch

Do that all the time on my local streets when I'm on the way to the park. Once in the park the dog is off the lead and we race each other. It helps my dogs look like this:

Couldn't find one of them running quick, so this is them just before some lure coursing. Anyone who's got a problem with me riding my bike with my dog or at times dogs gets a cockpunch

Yep animals and children as they say, unpredictable, it can be fine but also a disater depending on the dog.

Nice looking hounds there Jimmy. My mums got 5 lurchers and my sister has 1, fast as fuck but quickly tired, and also bored, they are genuinely shit at stick fetching, they run whilst its in the air but as soon as its landed the thrill of the chase ends and indifference quickly sets in.

And luckily for that rider that dog is a total scrawny rat, cycling through a park with a dog on a lead with the whiff of literally 100's of arseholes and other doggy scent marks to distract it would be trouble with any normal sized dog, my sister cracked her ribs doing a comedy dismount from her bike whilst doing the same with hers.

Collie/sheep dogs are the most amazing for cycling, I once went on a 7 hour off road ride in grim rain and windy conditions around Brechfa in South Wales with a mate and his 2 dogs, they were fucking machines. One went all the way round carrying a massive stick and every time we paused I'd throw it as far as I could and it just did not tire of it, it was like the fecking Terminator, we arrived back at the car park ruined but he was as game as at the start. The CN clinic would be in no doubt that doggy EPO was being used. csb.

Should have led with the Kidney Punch

I knew I was on the verge of saying something stupid so took a turnoff.
#shittingit

This morning, coming up the West hand side of the Isle of Dogs.

There are roadworks going on and contraflow traffic lights around a particularly massive hole on the other side of the road. The lights changed to red as I approached and stopped at the front of the queue. The contraflow is only a hundred yards or so long, dead straight and a line of cars start coming down immediately.
The lights have been red for a good ten seconds when a older guy - bald on top with long curly grey hair behind - steams past me on a black mountain bike. He has clearly seen the oncoming cars but reckons he can still make it up past them by riding in the left hand gutter. A third of the way up he sees that there is a van coming further along and realises that it is too wide for both him and it.
So he jumps up onto the pavement and keeps pumping his cranks at full tilt past the van, only to clip a wheelie bin that has been left on the pavement and fall back into the road. When the van clears the contraflow I see him and the bike in a heap on the floor in front of a very shocked driver who has just done a full-on emergency stop in her vast Range Rover..

Fucking lucky guy..
Incredibly stupid, but fucking lucky.

^ But which stupid do you mean? Depending on whether the pavement was being used by anyone else, and how much of a dick I would look... but if there is a big wait, and an empty pavement I might do what he did... not wait until I saw the van, just pop onto the pavement immediately it turned red and start making my way. But, and this is the big question in my mind, how did he manage to hit the wheelie bin? I mean, how big are those things? How did he miss it? If he can't cycle (on road or pavement) without hitting great big obstacles in plain sight, then how can he be helped? It's only a matter of time.

That was me, sorry. Was in a hurry to redeem a voucher I had for a free packet of 'Walkers Crinkles' at the local shop before it ran out.

What flavour did you get?

Come on Rob, we all know that having that much hair is a fond memory for you.