Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

that's a bit rapey

How rapey?

(On a scale of one to John Leslie?)

I'd say a 7.Dean Gaffney, maybe an 8

How rapey?

(On a scale of one to John Leslie?)

Surely its Mike Tyson and his strangely effeminate voice that resides at the top of the rapey scale? With John Leslie cuming a close second

noobs don't know about rape-gate.

/pack it in, rape is never funny.

noobs don't know about rape-gate.

/pack it in, rape is never funny.

True.

(I'm not a noob, just a prick at times.)

rape is actually bad, much worse than bad cyclists

To the older lady with a beret on a red "pasley" pootling down Holloway road: riding down the left-hand side of lorries and trucks at choke points is going to get you smooshed! Please don't do that in front of me when I'm trying to enjoy my sunny Friday cycle in to work! Riding and wincing all the way down Holloway road probably made me look a bit special..

Picture this..

6.30pm last night travelling south on OKR.. Just past the KFC approaching the set of lights by “Safe Storage”. There’s a K9 Po Po van stationary in the right turn only lane. As I draw level with it the left indicator blinks into life as it simultaneously lurches into the left hand lane and pretty much into me.. I like to think that 20+ years of commuting by bike in London’s Famous London saved me from a nasty accident, not to mention the other cyclist who skittled into the back of me as I avoided the collision. Trying to remain calm I enquired what the female officer thought she was doing. To which she replied that she had indicated and I had plenty of room.. We then had a glorious rolling conversation all the way down to the next set of lights where I had to inform her that I plainly did not have enough room. She does not have right of way to pull out of a right turn only lane into flowing traffic on her left. Her indication does not mean I have to give way but she has to wait until it is safe to do so. Her conscious decision to pull into me was dangerous and I’d expect more from an officer of the law who should set an example to other drivers.. She tried to argue her point. I told her I understood. But she was wrong. Admit it. Apologise. And be more careful. The next time she might well hurt someone..

She spologised.

I resisted suggesting maybe she let the dog drive..

Some city boy on a Boris Bike, straight through a red from Old Broad St turning right onto London Wall, straight in front of cars waiting and gives em the finger when doing so, what a cunt.

Brave repped because that's the sort of thing I wish I'd have the gumption to do but would have got all high pitched and / or arrested in the process. Good work.

Brave repped because that's the sort of thing I wish I'd have the gumption to do but would have got all high pitched and / or arrested in the process. Good work.

+1

Really late for work riding as fast as I can ride past some guy on some king of expensive urban "street" looking MTB he decides i must be racing him and stays on my tale all the way to just out side my work where he rides past me and says "I will whip your arse anyday and how shit my bike was" Made me laugh as I was on my beater!

Brave repped because that's the sort of thing I wish I'd have the gumption to do but would have got all high pitched and / or arrested in the process. Good work.

Fail for posting in the wrong thread though :D

To the older lady with a beret on a red "pasley" pootling down Holloway road: riding down the left-hand side of lorries and trucks at choke points is going to get you smooshed! Please don't do that in front of me when I'm trying to enjoy my sunny Friday cycle in to work! Riding and wincing all the way down Holloway road probably made me look a bit special..

Surely you should say something?

Saw a blonde riding a barclays bike while holding her phone to her ear with her shoulder.

Surely you should say something?

Too right.... wearing a beret

Surely you should say something?

I really wanted to but I didn't want to come over as being condescending, should have suggested cycle training but that often brushes people up the wrong way.. What does one say in these situations? (serious question)

Too right.... wearing a beret

Don't know if it is any better but it could have been one of these:

hipster thread >>>>>>

I really wanted to but I didn't want to come over as being condescending, should have suggested cycle training but that often brushes people up the wrong way.. What does one say in these situations? (serious question)

Telling some to get some cycle training will usually get a frosty reception. But to suggest riding down the side of any vehicle where you can't see the driver seeing you is a recipe for trouble or even something about a fatality on that exact stretch of road could bring it home.

I managed to crash into the back of a car on Rotherhithe Roundabout today.

Taking it all a little too casually, I threaded in between gridlocked cars, and ended up taking out some old duffer's rear light cluster.

I had to flag him down to swap addresses. Part of me thinks I should have saved myself the hassle and the £60 dent in the pocket.

He thinks I'm going to pay for a replacement - Little does he know that I'm just going to kidnap his dog, and that I've been planning this whole venture for weeks.

I rode into the back of a Golf on LB a few months ago. It was my fault entirely, was too close to it and he had to make an emergency stop. I smashed his light cluster and my arm took out a rear passenger window. He didn't seem to notice...when I eventualy managed to flag him down he acted so suspiciously that in hindsight It was appeared probable that he had just nicked the car such was his unwillingness to hear my apology and offer to pay for the damage....

surely you should say something?

red!

To the massive courier cunt bombing it through red lights and ped crossing at New Oxford St/Museum St an hour ago. I'm glad that ped swung his elbow at you and, the be honest, I'm a little disappointed he only connected with your bag and not your head. You were inches from colliding with a woman pushing a pram. By far the worst and most aggressive behavior I have seen on the road let alone by a cyclist.

/rant

embarrassment

Surely you should say something?

I really wanted to but I didn't want to come over as being condescending, should have suggested cycle training but that often brushes people up the wrong way.. What does one say in these situations? (serious question)

It's difficult to know exactly what to say but that's what this thread was created for; to discuss that (before it just became a long, daily list of blah blah blah I saw this, blah blah blah idiots, cretins and morons). You may as well risk sounding condescending if there is at least some chance of her taking it on board and seeing how she put herself in danger.