Fucking Nodders!

Chill out. Enjoy the fact that more and more people are cycling. If you see someone risking their safety then educate them on what they did wrong and how they can improve.

oh im definitely chilled! and loved my ride in, its still annoying.

Let the onslaught of boater hats and dutch bikes commence

Slightly related to Rogan's post above, yesterday I saw a roadie yelling at some slower riders for getting in his way at the lights. While it is indeed tedious to pull up at the lights just to have a bunch of nodders trundle in at all angles in front of you, I guess the whole logic of the ASL is to give cyclists as slower traffic a head start on the cars, so by this logic should faster riders allow slower riders a head start?
Given this guy had picked the far left of the lane to stop, I suppose the answer is that if you pick the position/line you need, you should be able to zip past after a couple of seconds patience and avoid getting cross.
Although, mid-junction sitters are tedious, and amusing when they can't actually see when the lights change. Super effective tactic for getting ahead.

^^Commuting between 6.55-7.20 and 5.10-5.30 is sooooooo good. See about 3 nodders on the way home and about 1 on the way to work.

One of the things I love about leaving the house by 06.30!!. nothing beats quiet roads on a warm sunny morning. Shame I don't leave the office til after 1700...

I think I might try a new tack: "For shame! Are we not British? Is this not a queue?"

Ha. "For shame!" is definitely not used enough any more.

saw one of these on the Old Kent Road, twat

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Want^

This thread makes me happy I don't live in the Land of Nod

saw one of these on the Old Kent Road, twat

What? Really?

Want^

I got one, fixed gear though. Brilliant for the suplesse

What was going on this morning? I had Tavistock Place all to myself - green lights all the way through and nobody in the way

^^ They were using CS7 instead.

they go drinking after work on a Friday so don't cycle

What was going on this morning? I had Tavistock Place all to myself - green lights all the way through and nobody in the way

Bloomsbury was eerily quiet. Fuck yeah.

they go drinking after work on a Friday so don't cycle

this

sometimes nodders make me feel comfortable as i imagine they are human shields, wafting around me.

only annoying incident that sticks to mind was when some lady on a dirty ridgeback mtb kept trying to trackstand at lights and psychotically mashed the pedals to overtake me at every opportunity and hog the lanespace, until the route opened up a bit for me to deliver a graceful and permanent overtaking.

^ yeah. My mate Al said the same thing today, glad for 'the rain that washed the scum off the streets'

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

All the nodders come out in the rush hour - hybrids, mountain bikes, Bromptons, Pashleys, high viz... sick, venal.

I ride all over. I ride to Bermondsey, Brockley, I ride to Harlesden.

I don't care. Don't make no difference to me.

rep

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

All the nodders come out in the rush hour - hybrids, mountain bikes, Bromptons, Pashleys, high viz... sick, venal.

I ride all over. I ride to Bermondsey, Brockley, I ride to Harlesden.

I don't care. Don't make no difference to me.

Rep indeed. Ironic that quote comes from a film called 'Taxi Driver'.

Worth rare log on for Foxes post.

Chill out. Enjoy the fact that more and more people are cycling. If you see someone risking their safety then educate them on what they did wrong and how they can improve.

Kidney punches all the way.

I thought of you today as a lady on a dutch bike, iphone headphones and a straw boater coasted through the red lights outside M&S Brixton and ploughed into a line of cyclists. What would RPM say I thought. Alas she didn't hear it, as some insipid nu-soul through those quality headphones, was probably acting as a safety cloak on her way to a second job, marketing role for a dull fashion company, in just north of Oxford Street.