Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

No, I want to get our conversation down from hi to a series of grunts.

You utter specialist

Otter specialist?

Got some nut on his racer last night with a face mask at the lights outside Aldgate East Station heading West. This is a nightmare of a junction at the best of times and cars are always in the ASL but I get to the front and am about 1m away from a car to my left. Dude on his orange racer tries to squeeze through the gap, knocks into me and ends up losing control and falling and grabbing hold of the car door which has its window open and his hand is on the frame of the door inches from the drivers face. He notices her look of horror, says sorry then inches through a foot gap between the car and the bike in front of it. Then RLJs and cycles down Commercial St. What a twat.

To be fair you had just offered to shoot her through a lavatory door.

I did a Dr Bike on the horrifically 'designed' Vauxhall Junction (Beesborough Rd/Millbank NE side). It is incredible the lengths that many will go through to pass on the left, to get to the front. Several situations when there were HUGE vehicles waiting to turn left and to help the petrified drivers I and another mechanic felt forced to advise cyclists to be patient and let the vehicle (that was there before they arrived, and had big fucking flashing lights saying I'm turning left) manoeuvre rather than undertaking.

Note in the majority of cases these guys we're going straight ahead yet were looking to go down the left of the left turners...

Guess where the magic blue paint runs? With no prioritisation, it makes the junction a free-for-all. The layout is set up for confrontation :-(

At one point there was a HUGE tow truck towing a double decker bus turning left and one lone wolf decided he knew best....you could see the look of horror on many faces as he wobbled between curb and behemoth. WTF?

I'm honestly surprised there aren't more deaths at this site TBH. I pray I'm not there to witness it.

The more SUD courses I do, the more I work with HGV drivers, the more I ride amongst commuters, the more sympathy I have for HGVers.

The best thing I saw big vehicles doing was to totally cut off the cycle lane thus keeping the gutter huggers out of the way.

Where have i been going wrong all these years?

You bin leanin®

Can I get confirmation that it is bad form to have your front wheel overlapping the rear wheel of the bike in front of you?

Confirmed.

Confirmed.

Totally.

^^Very much that.

Half wheeling.
Under no circumstances should you cross wheels with the rider in front of you, this is dangerous and can cause accidents.

Rapha Club Ride Rulez

You're right, It's wrong, but it's not half-wheeling. That's something different.

Also, good form if you're trying to ride in an echelon.

You're right, It's wrong, but it's not half-wheeling. That's something different.

I've seen 'half wheeling' refer to...

A - Riding on the right, parallel one half wheel ahead of the group leader forcing the group leader to push harder, disrupting the pace of the group, and dropping people off the back.

B - Riding on the right with your front wheel parallel with the rear wheel of the rider ahead of you in such a way that if the rider ahead of you were to manouvre to the right suddenly, he would take out your front wheel causing an accident.

Which is it? Or is it both? Or neither?

Otter specialist?

Half wheeling is essentially pushing the pace up and up without actually getting on the front and driving the group.

The two city types having a nice chat about their Brompton's while riding two abreast along King William St and then along Princes St, then pulling across the road to avoid the parked taxi causing the following cyclist to have to pull into the on coming traffic.

Shout out to the guy on the white SS, with the England rugby backpack and Charles Thywart suit bag, who undertook me on the CS7 yesterday at the junction outside Oval tube heading north and took umbrage with being called a bell end.

Your attempting to stop short and have me ride into the back of you along with the invitation to "come here and say that" only served to reinforce the snap judgement I made about you.

RIP you tasty motherfucker.

haha, stolen.

For the belm thread?

simpleton.

utter specialist

Belm thread>>>>>>>>

shush you.

How dare you shoosh a lady like that, sexist.

How dare you shoosh a lady like that, sexiest.

ftetc

surely the graun bike blog is above this level of collective responsibility enabling, prejudice confirming horseshit propped up by anecdotal evidence and zero actual evidence.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/05/worst-thing-about-cycling-other-cyclists

fuckity offity.

surely the graun bike blog is above this level of collective responsibility enabling, prejudice confirming horseshit propped up by anecdotal evidence and zero actual evidence.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/05/worst-thing-about-cycling-other-cyclists

fuckity offity.

From the comments:

Now that I commute west, my route is fairly quiet - but I've had to cycle through central recently and it's now changed a lot - you have a big community of fixed wheel bikes, many couriers (a big community of which come from the LFGSS forum) - and many of them are a real bunch of reckless fools. It's these cyclists which rush through streets, jump red lights, go up one-way streets etc. Of course this doesn't apply to all of them - there are a large number that cycle safely.

lawl. We're internet famous!

arf. some wag has already linked it to this thread.