Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Because we're BRITISH damn your hide. Rulers of the world, opening up vast new areas of the map for Victoria, and showing these colonials a thing or two.

Why would anyone spell "new" as "nu"?

People who like Nu-Metal.

Those people should be forced to have licence plates and to obey the law, etc.

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ANEWSTAR or NEWSTART or ANUSTART

Eh? Anus is spelled correctly.

Should have given him details to get some cycle training.

So you can't leave the cycle lane but he left the cycle lane to overtake you?

Interesting...

Should have given him details to get some cycle training

I started trying to do that, but he wasn't really in the listening mood.

Judging by the standard of some road user (verbal) interactions I see, it's not cycle or driver training these people need but basic-level socialisation. Or a Valium the size of a frisbee

Agreed, saw an old boy on a bike shout "FUCK OFF WANKER" to a car indicating, waiting to do a U turn. Completely uncalled for/unnecessary

Yep. I was about to blame the rise of 'speak your branes' style, consequences-free internet communication for this, but it seems people alive long before the internet are just as abrupt and foul mouthed

Oh well. Another idiot on the road.

Hmm... I think I know what you mean..

Walking down botanic avenue on the kerb (student area of Belfast great park and cheap food) we hear cycle bell and braking behind us.

So this guy sorta forces himself through expecting people to get out of the way. I don't mind pavengers if they're careful / wait but this guy expects right of way.

I say to him "look if you want people to get out of the way, get on the road...kerbs are for peds"

But he's "not a car" and "you don't teach kids to cycle on the road". Told him he looked very young for six years of age 🙄

Confrontations rarely result in something but didnt feel like letting it slide on a busy kerb.

kerbs are for Americans

They sure are.

Curbs.

It's actually one of the nicknames for it in the motor industry because they've sold so many of the fugly things.

Oops just replied to a post from a year ago, sorry, as you were.

He was clearly balancing on the kerb. As was everyone else.

Seriously though it was probably called a kerb in some areas of Britain or Ireland before that was the case in America. Google language diaspora.

Ok language police I'll admit I get American and UK English mixed up.

Got taught UK English at school in The Netherlands but as so many texts are in USA English I'm sure I mixed up my grays / greys. Never my aluminium and aluminum. I mean...that's just wrong ;)

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And zoom out?

Me. Riding like a demented loon this morning until I decided I'd rather keep it rubber side down and had a word. Don't know what came over me.

I waited behind a bus yesterday. Novel. Felt fine. Would do it again.

You mean you didn't squeeze into the vanishingly small gap between the bus and the curb, only to have the bus start to move mid-filter?

Weirdo.