Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

"RLJing devalues cycling as an activity."

I said this to car passenger questioning why I bothered stopping for them on empty night. Truthfully was wasted.

Got it saved for future roaducation.

Edit - this was meant for the new friendly nodder thread oops.

I was just walking back from the shop, musing on the evening parade of lightless and pavement riding cyclists I'd seen during the three minute walk there when two rather obvious women stopped me to ask if I had 60 pence. I was thinking that was an unusually specific amount to ask for and explaining that I didn't have any change when the, considerably older, of the two asked "Do you want business?". I said "No, no thanks" and wandered off thinking about Larry David and the etiquette of rebuffing a prostitute.

You should have said yes. The last time a lady asked me if I wanted business I nodded willingly and for £30 she gave me a large insurance provider in Horsham.

Sun Alliance?

I was once asked exactly the same question in Sydney's Kings Cross area. It was 8am and I wanted milk not head, so she told me the way to the nearest corner shop.

Nice girl. Extensive knowledge both of the city and prostate massage.

I fully advocate cockblockingthafuq outta those jucntions until my manoeuvre is complete.

General_Strike in reply to @cornelius_blackfoot
I find most traffic takes it as the opposite; "I'm about to turn right, so your best course of action is definitely to overtake recklessly just as I start my manuevre."

That would be because you're not looking/signalling hard enough.

Plus the river side features too many cobbles is too twisty unless you're not in a rush....unless he is all about Southwark park rd into Rotherhithe st?

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You should have said yes. The last time a lady asked me if I wanted business I nodded willingly and for £30 she gave me a large insurance provider in Horsham.

You rode off having said yes?

Well, I had to get to Horsham.

I tut-tutted reprovingly at a pavement cyclist who scythed through a busy bus stop in Camberwell the other day, and he flung down his bike, got in my grille and inquired if I'd like to pop round the corner where there was no CCTV to have my face rearranged.

Must stop assuming London cyclists are normal human beings. Hard habit to break.

tell him he's not a child and to ride on the road like every other adult...

There are situations where adults can argue that riding on the footway is necessary.

just sayin

All I can think of is...

if you need to ride on the pavement you can just as easily get off and walk. see also RLJing.

The footway is sometimes the only place suitable for cycling, where traffic speed is an issue. I realise not in Camberwell, but I'm just saying that it's not black and white, especially for people in rural and suburban places. According to an article in the CTC rag, about the tiny kid who was reprimanded by a copper in Lincolnshire, the current police guidance is that cyclists should be given the benefit of the doubt where they use the footway in heavy traffic and fast road situations.

So stop being all 'Get on the Road!'. It's sometimes not appropriate.

http://lcc.org.uk/articles/minister-for-cycling-clarifies-pavement-cycling-advice-after-1057-fines-for-pavement-cycling-in-london

@Skülly, all of that makes much sense apart from the fact that the adults who invariably want to ride on the footway decide to ride much faster than they should. If you're not riding at the pace of the pedestrians around you (obviously if it's clearer you can go faster) then you're doing it wrong.

Everytime a pedestrian jumps out of my way when I'm rolling up behind them on a shared pathway, makes me want to apologise to them for every other cyclist whose afraid of traffic whose decided to smash it past them (sweeping generalisation I know).

Cycle at the pace of everyone around you whilst on the footway, and you're golden, otherwise hit the road, or slain it...

If you're not riding at the pace of the pedestrians around you (obviously if it's clearer you can go faster) then you're doing it wrong.

Absolutely.

I guess I'm picking a fight with nobody.

love you too..

Well that's a confusing article innit!

I guess I'm just saying I think that people should be tolerated riding on footways except where they show no consideration of anybody else. Yes educate them not to. But I'd rather they rode there badly than say on the A20 badly (a road near my home which is really busy and not a nice place for cycling).

There's an absolutely infuriating section of cycle path on Trafalgar Way in the Wharf that alternates between shared and split. There's a narrow, blind bend but as it's a path of desire you get all the peds on it too. Seen a lot of close calls there.

Staggering levels of cuntwittery in central london today. I generally appreciate more people on bieks makes drivers drive more safely around cyclists as they look out for us more. Today it really felt the biggest threat to me was other cyclists. The number of utter twats who raced past far too close when I was stopping for red lights, pedestrian crossings etc. My favourite though was the lady who despite my signalling left still decided to try and go straight up my inside, she looked shocked when I shouted at her.

straight up your inside ?
right up your alley :)