Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

ask clive ... i think he started the trend / fashion

Stacked it this morning because of a shit cyclist. Powering along Binfield Road, past Stockwell bus station, I see this numpty wobbling slowly along the centre line on his hybrid. I changed my line to give him plenty of room, but just as I reach him he suddenly pulls a ninety degree turn (entirely unpredictably, because there's no road for him to turn down) and shoots across my path. I go over his front wheel (and my handlebars). While I am lying winded, he just cycles off and it's the cyclist behind me who helps me to the side of the road. Spent the morning being checked out in casualty; just bumps and minor cuts, thankfully, but my back muscles took a couple of hours to unlock.

If I ever see you again, I am likely to knock you off your bike and beat you around the head with it till you stop moving, you dangerous, cowardly cunt.

Very nearly had exactly the same thing happen to me on Roseberry Ave a few mornings ago - guy starts out on the very right hand side of the lane, slowly starts veering to the left, so I go to over take on the right and then he suddenly cuts a massive 90 degree right hand turn towards saddlers wells - I have to swerve into the opposite lane, where there is luckily no traffic to avoid him. Completely utterly oblivious!

Crossing Hyde park from Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner. DANGER ZOOOOONE!

Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone - YouTube

threatening fixie skidders.

Phew, I was SS - what a narrow escape

Crossing Hyde park from Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner. DANGER ZOOOOONE!

I use this as a shortcut between two work locations and oh my god I would rather do laps of Hyde Park Corner than use the cycle-path near Marble Arch

Phew, I was SS - what a narrow escape

Nazi cunt

Nazi cunt

Not sure if the word "nazi" is totally necessary but no harm in using it. Good point well made.

Not sure if the word "nazi" is totally necessary but no harm in using it. Good point well made.

I'm not sure what's worse, riding a single speed or being a war criminal.

I suppose riding single speed with only one brake is worse than both of those though.

Makes you Waffen SS

Sings:

"Hitler, has only got one gear"

Nazi cunt

Conversely

FIXED 4 FREEDOM
4 wheels = nazis

Is this discussion subject to Godwin's law?

Quick question - is it acceptable for a cyclist to pull up alongside a driver's open window and lecture him on his failure to leave an adequate gap between his near-side and the kerb to allow bikes to undertake / filter? My initial personal take on it was that drivers have no obligation whatsoever on any level to leave a bike sized gap for undertakers / filterers and to pull someone up on it is utterly ludicrous. It might even be an actively good thing if it discourages undertaking and filtering inside left turning lorries.

On reflection maybe it is good practice when driving to try to leave a gap for cyclists down the inside - so many do it that in a town like London it is just common courtesy to be out a few feet to make life easier for those moving faster than you on two wheels. But even if it is good practice is it really such a bad thing to do that it is ok for a cyclist to have a go at a driver for failing to leave a gap on the inside?

What is the difference between undertaking and filtering by the way?

I think this post is in the rigth thread as the debate is whether a cyclist having a go at the driver is a 'bad cyclist'.

What a cretin. If there's no room, cyclists need to filter on the outside. "Filtering" on the left isn't even a good idea at all unless there's a separate lane or a lot of adequate space.
In fact it's safer for motor vehicles (especially articulated ones) to cut off that dangerous route altogether to encourage cyclists to filter/overtake properly.

Conversely

FIXED 4 FREEDOM
4 wheels = nazis

Is this discussion subject to Godwin's law?

I'd rather drive than ride single speed in town.

^

Can't tell if serious

Won't catch me flip-flopping over to fixed, wouldn't want to go round london town with no brake lights eh?

What is the difference between undertaking and filtering by the way?

Undertaking is passing on the left in another lane. Filtering is passing in the space between lanes/the kerb.

Something like that anyway.

Looks like you're already discussing what I came here to post, so here goes;

Madam,
I stopped close to the kerb not only because was I turning left, but because the LWB transit in front of me at the lights was too. My positioning was a deliberate signal to you, had you the knowledge to see it, that going up the left was deprecated under the circumstances. I don't mind that you whacked my nearside mirror with your handlebar as you squeezed past, but I do mind that if you pull that shit with a big truck, or even a less attentive transit pilot, you are going to get squished as you attempt to go straight on at the junction.
Yours, concerned,
MT

In fact it's safer for motor vehicles (especially articulated ones) to cut off that dangerous route altogether to encourage cyclists to filter/overtake properly.

I saw this happen the other day - car signals to go left at traffic lights on red and positions itself blocking any cyclists hugging the kerb who were planning to go straight on.
A lot safer - bring on the assertive motorist.

It ain't no fun trying to pull a left turn in slow traffic when there's a fleet of determined Kerb-Nodders streaming through.
And then the ones that go up onto the pavement when there's no room…

Undertaking is passing on the left in another lane. Filtering is passing in the space between lanes/the kerb.

Something like that anyway.

Undertaking is passing a moving vehicle on the left. Filtering is passing through or to either side of stationary traffic. I think.

Undertaking is best avoided at all times. It's just not a good place to be.

What a cretin. If there's no room, cyclists need to filter on the outside. "Filtering" on the left isn't even a good idea at all unless there's a separate lane or a lot of adequate space.
In fact it's safer for motor vehicles (especially articulated ones) to cut off that dangerous route altogether to encourage cyclists to filter/overtake properly.

this.

I would advise taking your place behind the vehicle in front, or anywhere you can find a space inbetween vehicles, in the lane most relevant to your travel, and not to attempt any sort of overtaking manouvre until one is clear of the lights. Why this rush to get to the front of the queue all the time, I'll never understand. You need to hold your ground and occupy a safe space (although this does assume you travel at a decent speed).

It ain't no fun trying to pull a left turn in slow traffic when there's a fleet of determined Kerb-Nodders streaming through.
And then the ones that go up onto the pavement when there's no room…

and I would accept a motor vehicle moving safely into a cycle lane/ASL in advance if it intends to turn left. Then we all know whats going on.