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After shouting guidance at a cyclist on a boris bike for riding through a box junction with traffic flowing in both directions, when the lights were red and then watch him ride through another set of reds only to be nearly run over by the a bus for him then to ride on the pavament for around 100 meters.
I then was sat at a set of lights where a girl on a brompton who watched me telling "boris" that he is going to get himself killed decided to tell me off for being a danger on the road and that I need to "chill out" as im stressing everyone out. (Which I could'nt belive what I was hearing as she thought Boris was not doing anything wrong!)
I have taken her advice as I have decided that most people are lost causes and do not want to be told that they might get themselves killed.
what would darwin do.........
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taste them after they die
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God of Nods
Dis guy?
KNEEL BEFORE NOD!
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Yesterday a hamster-wheeling foldable rider went absolutely piling past me down a separated cycle lane; all dressed for 'urban cycling warfare'. Pedestrian nearly stepped into the lane in front of this guy but leapt back in time. Totally honest mistake and no harm done. But cycling-warrior decides to launch abuse at the pedestrian as he went past. I actually felt so bad I apologised to the pedestrian as I passed him. "Warrior" then decides to overtake all of the bikes on the cycle lane by cutting straight into lanes of traffic only to get stuck in a rather dodgy position behind a huge, turning lorry blocking the entire lane. The cyclists on the lane just pedalled past him calmly and left him muttering at the lorry.
Really wanted to suggest to him that just calming himself down would really help, but guess it'd not be too welcome.
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stuck in a rather dodgy position behind a huge, turning lorry blocking the entire lane. The cyclists on the lane just pedalled past him calmly and left him muttering at the lorry
Struggling to see what he's done wrong here. Sounds like he joined the main traffic flow to overtake since he was moving faster than the other cyclists, then waited in lane behind a dangerous vehicle as it executed a manoeuvre rather than switching lanes in order to undertake (something you're not supposed to do). Certainly sounds like he did everything by the book and in accordance with the rules of the road.
He might have been angry while he did it, but if a bit of muttering is his only crime then god help us all when we're having a bit of a bad day
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KNEEL BEFORE NOD!
Is that some kind of royalty etiquette?
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Struggling to see what he's done wrong here
He did absolutely nothing wrong at all. My only point was that he seemed so stressed and angry while cycling in a pretty quiet part of London. Shouting at pedestrians and muttering at lorries for no reason (the lorry wasn't doing anything wrong too) seems, in my humble opinion, to be a good way of spoiling what can be a really pleasant way of travelling.
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On the commute in this morning, a lady cyclist asked me how the video camera (actually a flashlight) on my helmet was working out. Said she'd been knocked off her bike "so many times" and was thinking of getting a camera. I told her my gizmo was just a light. Having earlier seen her meander down tiny gaps left of large vehicles and undertake on the footpath at an intersection when there was no gap to re-merge into I could only add that I've never been knocked off, because I ride cautiously. She laughed and said she'd noticed that. Then pedalled off as the lights changed. Best of luck fearless nodder!
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On the commute in this morning, a lady cyclist asked me how the video camera (actually a flashlight) on my helmet was working out. Said she'd been knocked off her bike "so many times" and was thinking of getting a camera. I told her my gizmo was just a light. Having earlier seen her meander down tiny gaps left of large vehicles and undertake on the footpath at an intersection when there was no gap to re-merge into I could only add that I've never been knocked off, because I ride cautiously. She laughed and said she'd noticed that. Then pedalled off as the lights changed. Best of luck fearless nodder!
Using a video camera was pretty good for me as it allowed me to improve my own riding more than anything. There were a few instances where cars did stupid things but re-watching it I could have been in a different position and avoided it. Ok so they made a mistake but it was good for me to learn more about how to avoid things like that.
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Best post here for a while^
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On the commute in this morning, a lady cyclist asked me how the video camera (actually a flashlight) on my helmet was working out. Said she'd been knocked off her bike "so many times" and was thinking of getting a camera. I told her my gizmo was just a light. Having earlier seen her meander down tiny gaps left of large vehicles and undertake on the footpath at an intersection when there was no gap to re-merge into I could only add that I've never been knocked off, because I ride cautiously. She laughed and said she'd noticed that. Then pedalled off as the lights changed. Best of luck fearless nodder!
Rep To The Ferarless nodder!! Rep indeed!
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left turn clyde…
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Using a video camera was pretty good for me as it allowed me to improve my own riding more than anything. There were a few instances where cars did stupid things but re-watching it I could have been in a different position and avoided it. Ok so they made a mistake but it was good for me to learn more about how to avoid things like that.
I did this, expecting to scare myself into riding more cautiously, but when I watched the video back it was pretty boring (bar some idiot buzzing a pedestrian through a red light and then getting into an argument with an Audi) so I have upped my RLJing and gap-squeezing accordingly.
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saw a belter this morning on tooley street, at the moment it's been turned into one way on the approach to london bridge due to roadworks but they've left a cycle contraflow lane to let cyclists still go the opposite direction eastbound.
anyways as I was approaching the top of the
slopehillmountain a cyclist heading in the opposite direction down the contraflow came to a wobbly stop and shouted 'oi' only for an early twenties 'lad' to come barrelling the wrong way up the 2 foot wide lane with a vicious bark of 'farrrk off' as he pushed his way past and wobbled to the front of the traffic and straight into the middle of the oncoming traffic crossing the junction. -
I did this, expecting to scare myself into riding more cautiously, but when I watched the video back it was pretty boring (bar some idiot buzzing a pedestrian through a red light and then getting into an argument with an Audi) so I have upped my RLJing and gap-squeezing accordingly.
Hah, mine was boring too, great idea!
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There's probably a bad pedestrians thread, but tonight I was walking my bicycle from the bike racks to the curb, not near anybody, and a passing guy tells me (seriously): "You should be on the road!".
Totally made me smile though, that made my evening.
Ha! had the same thing last week as I left my office in Wandsworth! Old Guy was really ranting at me. I had to turn round and calmly point out I'd just wheeled my bike out the gates of teh car park and was not about to push the frame into the oncoming-traffic-flow-of-death...
He was a bit stumped and just started screaming at a nearby nodder
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that's a bit rapey
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Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?
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Shouted RED!