Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Hope you don't think I'm getting 'aggy' with you. I totally understand the nature of your posts and they're a nice counter balance to what appear to be whiny posts. Thing is, I went away for a couple of weeks no bike, no cycling chat or anything. I came back with that just been away vibe of niceness and peace, yet being on the road for a day and a half around other cyclists has evaporated it already :-$

From reading this thread I get the impression that cycling in London is close to hell on earth, esp during noddergedden summer, so I can see why people use the thread to vent. Didn't think you were getting aggy, just want to make sure you knew I was being hipsteronic

^Which, Jimmy, is the main thing that is wrong with this thread.

But with such a tantalising crack what's a bloke to do??

But in the immortal words of Lily Allen, "you can't get pregnant in the bum-bum".

Bunch of dip shit teenagers stood in the cycle path next to the ped walk way. Was in a pretty bad mood and seeing people walking on cycle paths fucks me off even more. Anyway I didn't slow down untill the last second and did a skid right through the middle of them all. Lucky I didn't hit any of them or come off cuz I skidded on wet leaves. TROLOLOLOL

You're a mug.

It's true, I've often seen coffee being drunk out of him.

You're a teacup.

nice one ein stein.

I often sprint over tower bridge down the middle, passing very close to oncoming vehicles. I realised the other day that I partly do this because I subconsciously want to 'beat' the other cyclists crossing the bridge on the inside. I'm an idiot.

Stacked it this morning because of a shit cyclist.

State of my work laptop, which was in my backpack:

I'm still able to walk because I was using one of those Deuter backpacks with the taut webbing frames that holds the pack off your back - acted like a spring. Even so, the impact bounced the webbing out of the backpack - had to reassemble it all afterwards.

That's nasty. I feel your pain - we're on Ubuntu 12.04 desktop as well.

i was a bad cyclist this morning as i undercut someone who was dawdling with their clipless shoes in front of accelerating traffic. i felt bad afterwards, but that weird intersection in wandsworth makes me nervous.

Fucking idiot on a brakeless dolan nearly got pasted 1pm today at the West end of Fenchurch St. Went around me (waiting) and straight into a 2ft wide space between bus and lorry just as they both began accelerating. If the lorry hadn't checked his mirrors and hit the brakes that would have been sticky. He then ran the next two lights and disappeared. If you're on here, I hope you remain so lucky.

Me, I was a bad cyclist this morning.
I know better than that.
I gave the first truck lots of space, I should have given the second truck more space. Sit back, let it go. Stay primary. Ommm. I shall try to practice more patience and be safer.

I have almost everything going really good at this point in my life (apart from having to move house but meh! minor blip) and so doing anything stupid is stupider.

I'm still beating myself up about this, I know better.

I ran for a leaving train this morning. It hurt. It was dumb. I won't be doing any of this 'running' again.

I'm sorry to all those people who had to watch me hobble towards the seats to wait for the next one, really I am. I hope you can all accept that and we can move on.

Humble apologies
Limpy, Ealing

I ran for a leaving train this morning. It hurt. It was dumb. I won't be doing any of this 'running' again.

I'm sorry to all those people who had to watch me hobble towards the seats to wait for the next one, really I am. I hope you can all accept that and we can move on.

Humble apologies
Limpy, Ealing

http://www.lfgss.com/thread14913.html#post459031

Rubbish! You have a vehicle that got to the queue first, having positioned itself so far left, Chavez would be envious with ZERO space for undertaking with a big orange flashing light saying I'm turning left coupled with a marching brass band and a choral choir angelically singing we're turning left with the world's biggest fireworks display in the background. Yet you will still get numerous riders turning up to this scene that will attempt to force their way to the front (depsite there being no ASL) skateboarding along the kerb due to the lack of space with the temerity to bang on said car's bonnet/roof because they've been inconvenienced.

Some people will never know what's going on.

I'm confused - I think you've reading something into my post that wasn't there. I was merely passing comment on the importance of signalling which way one is intending to turn; cyclists and motorists alike often fail to do this.
Whether the space exists or not to act accordingly - or whether people do actually act accordingly - is another matter entirely, and not one I passed judgement on. INDICATE - that's all I said, and there are no holes in that.

There's a complete cocksocket who I see on the Uxbridge road most days. He comes flying out of a side street, as usual without any regard for other traffic, weaving through pedestrians as he RLJs at high speed through the Shepherds Bush roundabout, pushing through gaps and generally just being a self centred dick on a bike.

This morning as I made my way thorough Notting Hill I saw him in an animated conversation with the cops who'd set up an RLJ trap for cyclists at Kensington Church Street. He was arguing with three cops, one of whom seemed to be writing out more than one ticket. It completely made my day.

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

never, ever, ever go down here.
I would rather cycle backwards down the fast lane of Park Lane than use this cycle path.
It's bad enough where the Donkey Derby ends and you come across them when they jump the lights from Hype Park corner into Constitution Hill as you come round the fast bend from Park Lane.

^^ fuck yeah, I love this story. There is one on my commute I wish this had happened to.

We have similar commutes - young guy, chain lock over shoulder, backpack, no helmet, yellow/black road bike with untaped drops? Pops out onto the Uxbridge road near the tube line?

I don't usually commute that way as I only go to ealing to visit my parents, but i think I have seen that guy actually. Glad he got done.

The one I'm referring to is the fat bald man with megaphone going down Jamaica road /tooley street. 2 years now I've been seeing the fucker RLJing through peds and never once caught.

Ah. The megaphone would be a dead giveaway. Related to the screaming banshee?

when they jump the lights from Hype Park corner into Constitution Hill as you come round the fast bend from Park Lane.

This. Every morning. I'm amazed and grateful that I haven't seen an actual accident, but near misses every time.
This morning, we were all mouths open and then shaking our heads in disbelief.

Anyway, Bayswater road around the Lancaster Gate tube, up Lancaster Terrace. Asshole on a Cannondale Supersix Evo with green TT bars. Despite cars having been stopped for multiple seconds, asshole RLJ's and almost rams into young agile perceptive female runner. Well done, you beat me as I slowed to stop behind.
If you were in the correct lane in the first place and riding primary, you wouldn't have needed to gain that much speed to cross 3 lanes and overtake me.

Lambeth Palace Road this morning at 8.45.

20 or so cyclists in front of me. I wait at the back, and when safe to overtake the pack, pull out and pass wide on the right. As i near the front, the guy directly in front of me decides to undertake the last remaining person by pulling left in to the cycle lane at 25mph, at the same time as this chap is moving back towards the kerb.

Rightly this caused comment from the guy being undertaken as he had to swerve back away from him. Mr undertaker indignantly comments he should have pulled over quicker.

Cue a verbal lashing from me on why undertaking people is not only bad form, but dangerous to boot.

I do not understand how anyone can find this acceptable.

For shame, are we not British etc etc...

I'm confused - I think you've reading something into my post that wasn't there. I was merely passing comment on the importance of signalling which way one is intending to turn; cyclists and motorists alike often fail to do this.
Whether the space exists or not to act accordingly - or whether people do actually act accordingly - is another matter entirely, and not one I passed judgement on. INDICATE - that's all I said, and there are no holes in that.

I used the end of your comment as a launch board for my rant about behavior at lights.

We all know London's roads are packed tight and it's not easy but monitor any junction and what I posted applies. The sheer lack of forward thinking, the constant self serving attitude and the inability/refusal to signal intent drives me to insanity.

And yes, Jimmy it is hellish at times.