Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Can you all kiss and make up please and move on.

Thank you.

I apologise

Hug?

is that a consenting hug?

Can you all kiss and make up please and move on.

+1

Yes all hug and make up so we can start talking about bad cyclists and stuff init . . .

or we could start talking about nice cyclists.

Ok let's start with me.

You're not nice. You keep giving us the Vees

Vee, I've been seeing a fair amount of the living, breathing TNRC Shroud but no where near enough of you.

Good to have you back around.

Come to Souths, then.

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.

Hah, mine was boring too, great idea!

Repeat after me: Boring is good

Still fucking boring tho...

I can handle boring.

Repeat after me: Boring is good

Hopefully the internet did not completely disguise the ironic nature of my post, but just in case: I was not being serious about riding more dangerously. Boring (in terms of traffic incidents) is just fine, thanks.

Absolutely and yes, the irony was evident.

I'm approaching my right turn, check behind, notice a yoof on a crappy MTB scuttling along the pavement to my right. I go for the turn, he accelerates, drops down off the kerb of the road I'm entering, I slam the brakes on, he tuts and carries on.

When you say he tutted you mean he sucked his teeth.

A couple of weeks back I encountered an utter bulb of a cyclist, picture the (slightly longwinded) scene if you will...

It's 11:30pm, I'm driving (sinful, but when collecting GF from Paddington at midnight, acceptable) and I'm briefly lost, relying on a Tomtom and roadsigns. As such, I'm driving slowly, maybe 20mph in a 30 limit, but with no-one around this seems acceptable. A guy on a sensible commuter with good lights and Hi-Vis vest joins the road from a cycleway to my left. I pass him with plenty of room to spare and begin to slow as I approach a gloomy traffic-light controlled crossroads under a flyover. (Westway into Porchester Road at Royal Oak Station)

Indicator on, still slowing gently and I'm gonna make a left turn into a singlelane carriageway over a bridge. The dude on the bike has moved into the right lane (turning right at the crossroads? Maybe going straight on? Possibly...)

But no, what's this? I'm being abused via my open driver's window as the dude scythes wildly across in front of me, swinging round to the left and making what is possibly the most demented overtaking maneuver since Dick Dastardly took out the Ant Hill Mob with a custard pie. As he's now found himself on the wrong side of the carriageway I brake and allow him room to regain the primary / kerbside position but he's still ranting, sadly nothing very inciteful but that special combo of spit and invective that comes about when you know you're in the wrong and could have died.

Now we're in traffic and are forced to stop side by side. He's gone quiet now. I roll down the nearside window slightly and ask if he's ok. He refuses to ackowledge me.

Sensibly equipped shift worker, I'd be surprised if you're on here, but if you should read this somehow then you're a disgrace and a danger to yourself and those around you. Cars are not necessarily the enemy, but if you continue to behave like that then you'll eventually encounter one that is.

Utter Bulb.

csb

nothing very inciteful

Good typo.

bugger, he was trying to 'incite' a response? I even took the 'e' out initially, as it looked a bit suspect.

alkali trying to picture what you mean, is it at this junction you turned left? http://g.co/maps/f69sj

That looks right to me hatbread, but weirdly when I used streetview last night there was a large white van where the bus is in your pic. I'm coming from the left of the linked pic (where the bus with the 'Sucy' sign is) and am about to turn left into the road shown directly ahead in your pic.

I was standing in a small crowd last night, waiting to cross the road at Hammersmith Broadway (going from the Piccadilly station to the Hammersmith one). Traffic is roaring round the corner as usual.

Next thing I know, a car screeches to a halt as a completely invisible ninja cyclist pulls from the left hand lane, all the way across to the right hand lane (5 lanes?) in one fell swoop. No signal, nothing. How the cars missed him, I'll never know.

The crowd gasped and shrieked as our intrepid assassin defied the odds and wobbled on his merry way. As he passed (going through the now-red light) I noticed that his V-brakes, front and back, were flapping uselessly in the wind.

What a champ. FFS.

This morning, tootling my way along towards Wandsworth, just coming up from Northcote road over bolingbroke and along to East Hill. I waited at a red, behind a lorry, calmly waiting for the green. I was in no hurry so pedalled slowly across, staying clearly in position.
Then, from the left, some guy on a silvery grey boardman, with a light on his tw+t-hat, wraparound shades and grey lycra bib-shorts decided to just carry on regardless past the car in front of him and through the clearly RED light heading strraight for my lovely merckx and showing no desire to slow his bike or hit the brakes, barely missing me. I would have shouted RED but he was so close by then he would have got my early morning just-outta-bed breath in his face and I very much doubt such a numpty would be on here. Therefore I pointed out that he was a twit (or something similar) and that he had gone straight through a red. He ignored this and continued obliviously and quite arrogantly onwards. Something has to be done to stop this Boardman mentality where buying a souped-up apollo and some lycra from halfords suddenly makes you Bradley Wiggins...

Oh, and shades in early morning fog is not a good look...

(Disclaimer: There may be some irony, personal opinion and stuff in the above post. Offence not intended)

Every scent of early morning breathe should have been delivered with venom on such a paltry twirp. As long as your Merkx and yourself got out of it safely, then us lot are happier for that. There's a bloke on my route who rides a Boardman, he's highly unlikely to gain much speed unless downhill though he's outta puff just crossing Dalston Junction, yet happily attempts cutting up buses, Lorries anyone on the road. Fool.