Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

I don't know, but they would be dead cheap to lighten

More than hippy. Go ride hippy instead. From what I've heard he's faster than a donkey and can go for quite some time before giving up.

My first thought was http://bit.ly/12YxMEQ , but then the first result was this, and I was so amused that a Donkey Fact Sheet was clearly such an oft-googled thing, that I have to let you off and share it...

http://www.ed.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.21412!/fileManager/donkey%20fact%20sheet.pdf

Unbelievably idiotic guy on light blue singlespeed today - jumped every light from Victoria down to Oval, was almost taken out twice as he did so, cut me up once (obvs because a woman can never "win"), tried and failed to overtake me on that stupidly narrow bike lane on Vauxhall Bridge, squeezed past the inside of a van as it turned to go under the southbound tunnel at Vauxhaull Cross (I actually squealed a bit at this point as I thought he'd had it), didn't once look behind him, was listening to music - fuuuuuu.

I honestly don't know how people who cycle this badly manage to survive on the roads.

More than hippy. Go ride hippy instead. From what I've heard he's faster than a donkey and can go for quite some time before giving up.
^ Wrong, in so many ways.

Repped.

Now go wash your mnd

Anyway at the moment the majority of the cyclists I see seem to ignore zebra crossings totally. Maybe it's just a summer thing.

#whinge
Yes I've noticed it too, and more risk taking in general. I guess some people lose patience when they're hot and sweaty, and their brains go a bit mushy.

If you're riding fixed, you don't look like a cyclist who's stopping.

I never thought about that before but that's a dead good point. I guess most people's conception of bike riding is slowing down = stop pedalling so seeing someone pedalling up to the crossing makes them think you're not going to stop. Obviously doesn't take into account the fact that so many cyclists fixed or not blow throw ped crossings, but still, jolly good point.

Pull wickedmegarad skidz so they know you're both stopping and a boss.

Has anyone else noticed the amount of people that veer off the road when going through a junction. For example, crossroads with a yellow box, sitting waiting at lights, when the lights go green, you should go straight ahead. But no, an alarming amount of people set off then veer to the left, even going out of the box then back in again before exiting the junction. Is this the magnetic kerb effect do you think?

And another thing that irks me, the bit in Camberwell at the bottom of Denmark Hill. It's a no right turn to get onto Coldharbour Lane if you're heading South through Camberwell, you should use the one way system that goes around by the back of Morrissons. Some wankers think it's ok to just pull up at the lights opposite the Nandos, at the end of the one way system because they can't be arsed to go around. Then they proceed to carry out the above shit junction move or just get in the way.
Re the veering - yes I have, especially Boris Bikers.

I agree with you about that Denmark Hill/Coldharbour Lane junction but after living there on and off for 15 years I've become used to the anything goes attitude as evidenced by peds, drivers and cyclists alike.

The majority of that problem is that the people is being hardwired to ride as close as possible to the kerbs because that what society tell them too, especially when narrow cycle lane deliver that message well.

^ Heh :)

goes on toe float into a 5 lane junction

Needs foot retention obviously.

Seriously, this confused me for a bit. Feeling dim today.

Was walking through Brockwell Park this morning as I'm getting the train home to my parents when a cyclist nearly smacked into me due to another cyclist who thought it was fine to ride full pelt through there at rush hour. I was walking on the left of the path with plenty of room to the right of me and with someone on the left of me. Cyclist in front of me was going to go round to the right when some twat behind me decides to come speeding through that space meaning the guy in front had to break and stop mm in front of my face. Admittedly just before this happened I looked away to the left of me as there was a commotion caused by loads of escaping dogs from the county fair/gipsy park coming towards us. The guy who was in front of me gesticulated towards me after he went past and I stuck my hand up and apologised but he should be more angry with the moron who thinks it's a great idea to go full speed through the park at rush hour when there are loose dogs, children and idiotic peds on their mobiles. Same goes for the morons who think it's alright to speed in and out of the entrance gates. I ride through here most days, it's not alright.

Also to the guy who shouted GRAGHHH at the top of his voice whilst pelting full on towards a veterinary nurse and a dog on a drip with a bandaged leg who didn't quite make it across the road before the lights went green. You sir are not attractive.

To the guy with short gingerish hair, astride the Planet X with trispok and ~80mm deep rear wheel, and wearing a T-Level backpack, who cut in front of one pedestrian, then another (me), and then rode on the pavement the wrong way down Evering Road yesterday evening, maybe if you had been less absorbed with ensuring everyone around you could see how "cool" you are, you might have heard me calling you a dickhead.

2007 called, they want their bike back.

The majority of that problem is that the people is being hardwired to ride as close as possible to the kerbs because that what society tell them too, especially when narrow cycle lane deliver that message well.

this. And when cyclists expect other cyclists to be IN the kerb on a narrow cycle lane so that they can overtake IN the already narrow cycle lane.
Don't fucking shout "left left" at me idiot. Can't overtake safely with space? Don't do it.

Maybe cycle lanes shouldn't have lines...

^^

I'm sure it wasn't you. I'd have recognised you.

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ftfy.

it's xDOMx's bike (and description)

It's not Dom, I know Dom.

The worst thing is pedestrians assuming no sound = no one on the road. I've nearly took out loads of people who just step into the road without a thought. How are these people still alive?

Was walking through Brockwell Park this morning as I'm getting the train home to my parents when a cyclist nearly smacked into me due to another cyclist who thought it was fine to ride full pelt through there at rush hour. I was walking on the left of the path with plenty of room to the right of me and with someone on the left of me. Cyclist in front of me was going to go round to the right when some twat behind me decides to come speeding through that space meaning the guy in front had to break and stop mm in front of my face. Admittedly just before this happened I looked away to the left of me as there was a commotion caused by loads of escaping dogs from the county fair/gipsy park coming towards us. The guy who was in front of me gesticulated towards me after he went past and I stuck my hand up and apologised but he should be more angry with the moron who thinks it's a great idea to go full speed through the park at rush hour when there are loose dogs, children and idiotic peds on their mobiles. Same goes for the morons who think it's alright to speed in and out of the entrance gates. I ride through here most days, it's not alright.

Also to the guy who shouted GRAGHHH at the top of his voice whilst pelting full on towards a veterinary nurse and a dog on a drip with a bandaged leg who didn't quite make it across the road before the lights went green. You sir are not attractive.
I don't know if it's the same for Lambeth but we had a battle to ensure bikes could cycle through all Southwark's parks. Every so often we receive a flurry of complaints about racing commuters or yobs on bikes and have to take action, in an effort not to lose this right. This is such a crap issue to have to spend time on but ignoring the 'friends' of such green spaces would be disastrous.

As for the idiot who rode at the dog - I haven't even got the words for a scumbag like that.

The worst thing is pedestrians assuming no sound = no one on the road. I've nearly took out loads of people who just step into the road without a thought. How are these people still alive?
Presumably because you end up having to shout at them to move?