Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

So er... Back to the subject of calling out cyclists?

I'm calling myself out for drafting a mountain biker on Tuesday night... In my defence, I was drunk (as was probably obvious from the can I was drinking from while riding)... Wait is that defense or more reasons to be called out? Anyway, in my actual defense I was riding far enough away from the curb (compared to the gutter riding biker) that when he pulled on the anchors purely to prove a point I just sailed past him... I also said sorry, apologising for passing kinda close before I realised the reason he stopped suddenly was just so I'd crash into him.

In case I'm too subtle, I'm also calling the other rider out as his braking was actually the most dangerous thing... Except for maybe his undertaking of a car that was signalling left and jumping the next light after...

Annoyingly I had too much beer left to drink to chase properly and explain why he was a dick

Did you give him a supp of the beer you were drinking at the time?

I just got home pretty drunk without any problems at all, but, TBF I wasn't wearing headfones.

I just got home pretty drunk without any problems at all, but, TBF I wasn't wearing trousers

tbf I'd give you a wide berth if you were naked from the waist down too.

Camden High Street about 07:45 this morning just past Camden Town station. I'm hanging back, not wanting to undertake a moving taxi. Some rapha'd up twat on a road bike decides to squeeze by me, up the inside of the taxi and then cut across to the right and overtake the lot.

MoN - another thing - driving a mini-cab is a horrid, badly paid, dangerous job. It is often undertaken by immigrants for a variety of reasons. Minicabs are black cabs' competitors so it would be fairly 'natural' (albeit entirely unacceptable) for black cab drivers to hate minicab drivers, who are often immigrants, therefore it becomes hating immigrants.

They overcharge cos of competition and can earn upto £200 a day.
Fuck taxi'z, cyclists are bigots.

They were very selective picking that junction at the bottom of Fortress Road. It's where it converges with Hampstead Road, there is no traffic crossing from either direction and it is** very safe to jump the light. Even if you're not wearing hi-vis or a helmet and have earphones in.**

But mostly illegal and lbh, makes you look a twat.

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Cyclists should be free to act as they please (with the appropriate fines dished out when necessary). Making anything compulsory will result in less people cycling and ultimately a less healthy populous.

I don't even know, my sarcasm detector is blinking weakly but otherwise I hate this statement.

make cycle training a mandatory part of the driving license.

I'm the third generation of a cycling family. None of us drive.

Good grief the LTDA are a miserable bunch of hateful little cunts aren't they?

Not content with reaming out long moans every few weeks in their magazine about how awful everyone else on the road is and how hard done by the honest cabbie is, but now they have to spend time and presumably uneccessarily large amounts of their members money creating a video to basically say "look, cyclists are cunts and cycling safety groups are liars".

Well that's really fucking helpful isn't it. What exactly is this video going to achieve other than letting arsehole cabbie drivers slap each other on the back and feel smug about their prejudices, whilst continuing to blatantly flout the law themselves and actually seriously injure and kill people without any sense of self realisation.

How much do the LTDA represent cabbies anyway? I understand they offer their members cheap insurance so large numbers of their base may only be in it for that, but with 10k members, how many cabbies are there in London? Having said that with the large amount of miserable looking embittered given up on life hateful little fuckends who drive cabs in London I suppose their views could be fairly representative.

Wow. They sound just like us really.

Oh, and.

Yesterday evening.
Big dude, high vis traintracks coat.
Belstaff helmet.
Brompton with lights.
On the pavement riding through bus stopqueues

A guy on a lo pro on Euston Road I think trying to rlj across the junction with Upper Woburn Place then realising he was going to die and turning left with the traffic instead. Either that or a guy on a lo pro choosing to turn left into Upper Woburn Place in the most bizarre way possible.

Also a general dickhead guy who I chose a different road to avoid who later reappeared to try and undertake me at speed as I started from a light, only to hit the kerb and fall off, ha ha, that's what you get for being a wanker.

Justice!

a guy on a lo pro on euston road i think trying to rlj that's what you get for being a wanker.

lol

Me. Hard stop halfway across clear oncoming outside lane before pulling into London bridge station from Southwark Rd-side.
You. Coming down London Bridge on your inside lane. Apparently you didn't think I'd stop. "Ah", "Woah", "Fuck" with a wobble.

Sorry I wasn't more considerate.

New thread title: nodder missed connections.

Fixed gear bike, looks like Jamaican flag attached to seat post. Looked kind of "on here".

I've seen some pretty dumb riding so far this Winter, but obnoxiously drifting out into turning traffic on Westminster Bridge North side Southbound, against the red and without any lights pretty much takes the biscuit. Only for you to repeat the trick at the Park Plaza junction. Proper organ donor riding that.

RJL this morning. Your hi-vis vest and helmet don't give you the right to be nob.

It pisses me off when the helmet/hivis brigade does this, as they're often the same crowd that lectures me on not wearing a helmet.

On the other side is the "I can't afford lights/a bike that doesn't sound like a cacaphony of mice slowly dying" crowd who won't lecture...or be visible.

That and the same ones who ride on the pavement. With lights.

Or, the best one ever, no lights but a helmet.

Can't be safe enough!

Roads in Belfast are utter shite though in some areas, I don't mind if somebody carefully cycles on a not busy kerb. I do get irritated by people pushing through or going too fast.

I do it with the wee man on the back of the bike as do you get more room with a child seat with a moving toddler in it? Do you **ck.

Or, the best one ever, no lights but a helmet.

Can't be safe enough!

Better still, the very small woman on a large town bike whose seat post is down so low that the rear light attached to it is completely invisible, as it's directly behind the mudguard.

Saw two of these one evening, both wearing helmets too

^ saw that last week, only it was a pcso whose hi-viz was obscuring the rear light. It was ok though as they were gutter hugging all the way...

Is this becoming a helmet-hate campaign? :P

JWest, don't take this the wrong way but I'm sure The Law *would *mind and unless you're on a cycle path should you be expecting room?

^

Not sure if Obvious troll is obvious or facepalm kirk.

^Think he misunderstood what Jwest was saying, he was talking about getting more room on the road, not the pavement

I think I might be becoming more relaxed and philisophical about twat cyclists.

Last night cylcing home I was about to overtake a cyclist who had been following the cyclist in front of him for as long as I could see him in the distance when, at the moment I was about to go by him he decided, without a look back, nor any indication, to pull out and overtake the one in front of him.

I shouted at him to alert him to my presence and hilariously he said I should have anticipated his behaviour suggesting that it was my fault. I found his arrogance refreshing. I'd love to live in his little world where everything is everyone else's fault. I wonder if he was a Cabinet Minister and he thought I was a benefit recipient?

Perhaps he's right. I should have anticipated him being a twat. It quite amused me. (not that it's relevant but he was on a Condor so would have expected slightly better of him)

Roads in Belfast are utter shite though in some areas, **I don't mind if somebody carefully cycles on a not busy kerb. I do get irritated by people pushing through or going too fast. **(talking pavements)
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I do it with the wee man on the back of the bike as do you get more room with a child seat with a moving toddler in it? Do you ck.
(still talking pavements as far as I can see)

^ In a collision the road user behind, if they hir the user in front, are at fault as much as if the user in front caused the collision.

But yeas, he shouldnn't be smug about it.

Perhaps he's right. I should have anticipated him being a twat...

It is, sadly, the best way to be - anticipate fuckwittery at every oppurtunity and you won't be suprised/cut off/ left hooked/knocked off/killed when someone does something stupid

Edit: obviously it sucks riding along thinking the worst and anticipating stupidity at every chance, but it seriously helps to avoid problems.