Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

I'll tell you what's not polite. What's not polite is using that box by the traffic lights. Don't you know that box is for me and my fellow white van drivers. Stay the fcuk out of it!
That is all.

There is an easier solution to the problem which does not involve lowering your head into a vat of boiling oil (which in itself may be a solution to many of your issues).

When the lights change, as you are such an elite rider, why not ride faster than the Cycle to Work Schemey and leave him nodding away in your wake. Arrive and leave the next lights before he gets there and forget all about him.

Just a thought.

The head in oil one might suit better though.

nicely put there cliveo, repped

I'll tell you what's not polite. What's not polite is using that box by the traffic lights. Don't you know that box is for me and my fellow white van drivers. Stay the fcuk out of it!
That is all.

That's the one with the yellow hatching in it, right? You're welcome to it! /flounce

Re. the OP - I've heard this behaviour referred to as "shoaling". I don't know why people do it. It is very common, though. C'est la vie. At least they're waiting at the lights instead of running straight through them.

These slow-mo-push-in-fronters irritate the hell out of me. I find myself growling 'WHAT'S THE POINT!' (in my head) at them all the friggin time!

Just sail right through

Stopping at traffic lights is so square

I have a bike to work, and it's a Boardman...! how dare I?! and I'll probably hold you up at the traffic lights....

hold you up while trackstanding that is....

.... like a bosss.

Fluoro-nodder on a Boardman. With a Hump rucksack cover. And Altura Night Vision trousers. I don't know what I'm trying to say.

Schmazberger: if this happens repeatedly, can't you anticipate it and get yourself in a position to avoid getting frustrated. You seem intelligent, I'm sure you can work it out.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread74108.html

Schmazberger: if this happens repeatedly, can't you anticipate it and get yourself in a position to avoid getting frustrated. You seem intelligent, I'm sure you can work it out.

Ha.

Fluoro-nodder on a Boardman. With a Hump rucksack cover. And Altura Night Vision trousers. I don't know what I'm trying to say.

HAHA! proper lol.

Same thing used to happen to me alot, until I started popping a few Tec 9 rounds into their tyres.

Haven't had the problem since...

i say barge on through

One of the many dangers of stopping at red lights. Shouldn't this thread be merged?

Adopt primary position in the green box, allow BTWC to dominate the gutter side of it, then when lights change overtake BTWC at your own pace whilst keeping WVM in his proper place behind you.

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How many times is polite to allow this to happen on the same journey before you bludgeon the panting “Bike to Work Scheme Cunt” to death outside McColl’s with his mini pump?

“Bike to Work Scheme Cunt”

Congratulations on mastering the forum's elitism and snobbery. You will make friends for life here.

Couldn't agree more. Why the hell is anyone a C2W scheme c--t?

Me, yesterday.

I was so focused on a cyclist trying to go in a 10 cm gap between a bus and the kerb, and how I could post about it in here, that I undertook an HGV without realising, and ended up stuck between said bus and HGV, with no line of sight to the driver.

Behind me was some fixie-skidder waiting at the back end of the lorry, giving me a disapproving look.

Oh the shame...

To the the portly middle-aged chap, swathed in the full Rapha on a Rapha Condor Sharp team bike-
Why couldn't you have bought a Porsche for your midlife crisis instead? There is no need to belt it as hard as you can off every set of lights from Waterloo RAB to Holborn and then cut in front of other commuters, slowing them down.

Also don't cross your dura ace chain (big ring, big cog, tsk tsk).

Also also, when you cut up a pair of couriers don't be surprised to get an earful of abuse.

Dude on white vigorelli RLJ'ing & undertaking like a boss around 6 this evening near Bloomsbury/holborn. can't really expect nodders to behave any differently when they see 'cool' guys like you setting that as an example

Thank you to the woman sat in the wrong lane of the cycle lane junction, chatting to her mate, on Hyde Park Corner.
Thank you for making the most stressful part of my journey (4 lanes of rush hour traffic, much?) even more stressful by blocking my only route off the road, forcing me to squeeze past you, shouting, as taxis and white vans try and kill me.
Thanks.

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Just sail right through

Stopping at traffic lights is so square

heheheh repped!

Adopt primary position in the green box, allow BTWC to dominate the gutter side of it, then when lights change overtake BTWC at your own pace whilst keeping WVM in his proper place behind you.

Direct WVM to BTWC as a slower and more vulnerable target.