Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Oh sorry about that, it was me.
I was swerving to avoid a colony of great crested newts.

I'm sure you'll agree about the importance of our protected species and will understand my motives.

Me too, although it was more about the (lack of) quality of life. Bit like working in cycling really!

beats 'working' surely

Saw team rally going the wrong way on a one way street... shocked I was.

And saw a cyclist go up the inside of a lorry turning off old st roundabout north onto city rd... Really though I was about to see someone die. Luckily the driver was paying attention and stopped/honked his horn at the last possible second before the cyclist went under him.

beats 'working' surely

I think you misunderstand what I actually do.

Fixie Cunter on Regent St, no foot retention and carrying two bags of shopping in his right hand. Twat could not pull his brake as he was holding the shopping out to the side and riding one handed so had to plough through a crossing full of pedestrians. I considered the urge to follow him and knock him off his bike for his epic cuntery.

Overtook the same ruddy-faced, red-light jumping prick 5 times in the space of 3 miles this morning. Riding an orange hub-geared On One monstrosity with a rusty, slack chain, from St James's Road to Whitechapel High St.

I seem to have found a commuting buddy in the shape of a slightly dishevelled looking man on a Long Haul Trucker with hub gear and panniers who EVERY day takes the same route as me from Peckham up to Marylebone, jumping every fucking red light and every pedestrian crossing the whole way.
Inevitably he catches up with me at every red light, which he then jumps, so I overtake him, then he catches me up... repeat.
Perhaps the most annoying thing is that he's not quite slow enough to drop, in the interval between lights so I end up riding with him most of the way.

Fucking cunt. Cunty cunty, inconsiderate, cunt.

Have you tried talking to him? Next time you see him ask if he's ready to let Jesus into his life, or if he is truly thinks he has adequate home and contents insurance, or offer him a drink from your waterbottle, tell him it's a special protein mix you make yourself, and that it's all natural and twice a effective as Viagra.

To scare him off, you mean?

I should probably relax, I just don't really want to see someone get flattened and/or get tarred with the same filthy "all cyclists are inconsiderate cunts" brush. Just hoping and praying that he gets caught by the plod around Victoria and I get to see it.

I reckon when you leap frog guys like that you force them to jump reds so they can keep up.

Prick on a road bike who sped over the zebra crossing on Railton Rd when the Dad and his daughter were trying to cross... you're a prick.

And more of a prick when I confronted you at the the lights, and you speed off into the distance screaming "donttttt juuudddgeeeee meeeeeeeee"

Doppler effect nodder

I seem to have found a commuting buddy in the shape of a slightly dishevelled looking man on a Long Haul Trucker with hub gear and panniers who EVERY day takes the same route as me from Peckham up to Marylebone, jumping every fucking red light and every pedestrian crossing the whole way.
Inevitably he catches up with me at every red light, which he then jumps, so I overtake him, then he catches me up... repeat.
Perhaps the most annoying thing is that he's not quite slow enough to drop, in the interval between lights so I end up riding with him most of the way.

Fucking cunt. Cunty cunty, inconsiderate, cunt.

So he is riding a steel framed bike, and you are stopped next to him repeatedly?

Ha ha. He never stops though, that's the issue. Just plods along, not stopping EVER. Actually, that's unfair, he's obviously a competent and relatively fast cyclist, just inconsiderate.

Just clip this onto his pannier- you'll then get to work undisturbed:

To be fair, he probably wouldn't notice.
Might just have to leave 10 minutes earlier/HTFU and avoid him altogether.

While we're on the subject, today was refreshingly shit cyclist free for the most part. What's happened? New Boardman hybrids got punctures after the first week and were relegated to the shed, I imagine.

Pointless I know, but to the man with calf tats, riding a fixed gear with bmx bars on Camberwell New Road this evening: you ride like a fucking bellend.
Real life nerged.

Some massive twats on the Jamaica Road eastbound last night.

One epic twunt aboard a road bike was intent on almost crashing into the back of anyone who dared stop at a red light. He was riding like someone had sprayed Deep Heat in his cycle shorts. Like a flailing cock.

And as for the fucking nodders. Good grief. I've never seen it that bad.

Answer THAT Mr Cannondale

Right, I see. Having once been quite good at being a cyclist, I think I'm struggling with it now. Unlike yourself, I still ride a bicycle for fun, fitness, and utility, but it grows more difficult to reconcile myself to the notion of being a cyclist. I reached the same position regarding being a musician once I'd met a large enough number of them.

Don't over think this.

i actually stopped at a red this morning .... meh... much overrated

Don't over think this.

That was a cursory mulling over, barely off the thought blocks.

Sounded like an existential crisis brewing to me. It's only riding a bike, you don't have to be a 'cyclist'. It's my experience that 'cyclists' are generally the worst people to ride bikes with and never want to drink beer afterwards :)

Or before or during.

Or before or during.