Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

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Mass ratio of car to Borisbike <100 Mass ratio of Essex Class carrier to Mitsubishi Zero >1500

I've seen a few people cruise casually through intersections without a single glance at the lights or head check for cross traffic. It's totally surreal.

The last person I saw to do that I asked if he wanted to get hit by a van. He acted nonchalant. I also warned a guy a boris bike to look before overtaking another cyclist as he went right in front of a car going at speed. He shrugged and carried on his way. If I see him get hit by a car, maybe I'll just shrug and carry on.

I'm getting freaked out by cyclists who overtake with zero space. I almost had a nervous breakdown on the CS7 tonight but a cyclist had a chat with me about the IOW randonnee at the lights and I chilled out again.

Someone overtook me track style the other day. He was at my rear wheel for a while then overtook within inches of a collision. Pretty scary.

Came to the light at Cedars and Lavender Hill yesterday morning, where a bus was all the way up into the ASL box without an indicator on. For some reason I stayed well back, though there was plenty of room to get up in front of it. I turned around when another cyclist stopped behind me and this idiot on a mountain bike busted past him, brushing him in the process, and bombed up between the bus and the curb. The lights changed, the bus started forward, the idiot started forward. Suddenly, the bus's left indicator went on. Aha. Idiot is still going forward. Bus begins to turn left, idiot is still going forward, and nearly gets it at the corner. I yelled, "That's why I didn't go down there!" and the guy turned around and smiled! ???

Do we have a thread for fucker peds too? I nearly crashed onto one this morning on my way to work and I am sure he mumbled "fuck you" or something. Yes, he was trying to cross the road when there are erm... about 5 buses and 3 bikes coming his way.

^ Is it not just given that a large number of peds have an ipod induced death wish

extra - human shields thread...

Came to the light at Cedars and Lavender Hill yesterday morning, where a bus was all the way up into the ASL box without an indicator on.
That intersection is a tight squeeze with vehicles undertaking the right-turn queue. I don't even stand close to the curb when I'm leaving the sainsbury - have seen cars and busses clip the apex with a wheel.

Yeah, I was kitty corner to the Sainsburys. Turning right from Lavender Hill onto Cedars is no picnic, either.

Do we have a thread for fucker peds too?

Something like this, perhaps?

ooh Jayloo, you go on part of my commute. Yippeee I might spot you one day. Jaygee and I go through Queenstown Road-Cedars Road.

Vee Vee, what time do you guys go through there? I've been leaving later lately so tend to get there around 8:45, I'd guess.

The last person I saw to do that I asked if he wanted to get hit by a van. He acted nonchalant. I also warned a guy a boris bike to look before overtaking another cyclist as he went right in front of a car going at speed. He shrugged and carried on his way. If I see him get hit by a car, maybe I'll just shrug and carry on.

"Ken bike"

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Vee Vee, what time do you guys go through there? I've been leaving later lately so tend to get there around 8:45, I'd guess.

we are be there around 8.15. booh :(

Complete douche on an mtb this evening going northbound on London Bridge.

I'd passed him about halfway over the bridge in the bus lane and the two lanes of traffic to the right were pretty quiet, apart from an HGV coming down the middle lane. As I check my shoulder I notice the truck indicating left which means e's not going straight on at the end like 90% of traffic does, so I slow down to let him overtake me and be on his way. As I do this the lorry comes across into the bus lane cutting me up completely. I hit the anchors and the MTB twat flies up the inside of me nearly clipping me and goes halfway up the inside of the truck before seeing his life flash before his eyes.

I go round the outside of the truck and the other cyclist is shouting at the driver. I call the cyclist an idiot (didn't ask him if he'd considered cycle training) and then the guy is mad at me! I carry on to the lights at the end and he eventually catches me up as I'm waiting at the lights calling me all sorts of names.

He's so busy screaming at me he goes through the red light and nearly gets knocked out by a bus coming across the junction. Suddenly he's really quiet and a bit shaken... again.

Lights change, I cycle past. Tell him he's a wanker and have a lovely ride home. The end.

Sounds like he made a complete cunt of himself. Hopefully that'll be a wake up call.

Every morning I cross Clapham Road from SE to NW at the Stockwell Tube junction. Most mornings, this crossing is complicated by fuckwit RLJers with no traffic awareness. This morning, after the green man had switched to red and the very dense pedestrian traffic had stopped, two idiots set off towards the NE exit along Clapham road despite the fact that the lights had already changed in our (traffic from the SE) favour and we were already moving. An even stupider driver followed them (he will have been watching them, not the lights) and the sorry trio crossed the junction in front of suddenly braking traffic to the sound of much horn-honking and verbal abuse. Really wanted to chase the cyclists down and slap them, but was busy.

The return crossing in the evening can be more dangerous, as the NW entrance to the junction is a single cycle track that is not obvious to the casual observer. Nearly been taken out by high-speed RLJers heading NE to SW or SW to NE (the latter is more dangerous, with less time to avoid a collision). More often, I encounter some dopey nodder who jumped the light from the SE entrance with the intention of turning right onto Clapham Road and is puzzled to encounter anybody coming the other way.

If you RLJ at that junction, chances are I've shouted "Prick!" at you at some point.

Last night walking past Camberwell green, some silly cow comes round the bend on the pavement and cycles into my effing leg. Not even a "sorry" just blithely carries on...

I hope she cycles into a dog turd, skids and falls onto it.

I understand the desire to RLJ, but there are times and places. One time not to is at lunchtime, and the place not to is at the pedestrian crossing between the shopping centre and Sainsburys, when the peds stream out into the crossing. Accelerating into the crowd moving out from the pavement is really stupid, and had the child to the side of me managed to escape from his mothers clutching grasp, he would likely have been under the wheels of your shiney racing bike, leaving your lycra covered body in an interesting heap, and the child badly injured.

I feel a bit better now I've vented that one

^^i can see it now #microsoftpaint

Sounds like he made a complete cunt of himself. Hopefully that'll be a wake up call.

+1

The Guy on the very expensive Felt who decided to jump the red lights at Atkins Road (South circular) on the way down to Clapham common this morning. By all means, go for it, but that intersection is an accident black spot plus there was a rider down at the bottom of the road just a week or two ago and there's a ghost bike just behind you. If you want to speed past on your £2k ready meal then by all means do, but if you want me to administer first aid once you get totalled then you'll have to wait for the lights to change in my favour first...

^ repped

pretty sure the A200, Jamaica Rd/Lower Rd is the epicenter of cyclo-cunts.
amazing displays of undertaking, reckless rljing etc. it's like some 1910 keystone cops farce with them running around in circles bouncing off each other and tripping on each other's feet.

only griping about it because i rode in slow today (I’m ill) and so got stuck in groups of these riders I’d usually overtake.

felt like fucking jane goodall observing chimps :(