Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

wow :| serious supernoddery...

Anyone you know?

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/dear-tragic-hipster-pt-ii.91021/

Sounds like 90% of the riders I encounter on my 2 mile daily commute.

'Cockwomble.'

lolz

'Cockwomble.'

lolz
+1

i've never seen an old man on a brompton breeze past anyone

^ that's cos youre so fast D!

i've never seen an old man on a brompton breeze past anyone

It's all relative.

80%* of people skidding around town like wankers aren't particularly good cyclists. That particular fixie skidder couldn't even breeze past a stationary car.....

*I have no data to back this figure up but I believe it to be about right.

GregCollins has an account on here, fwiw. And I'm pretty sure I know where Tim O has another account, come to think of it...

i've never seen an old man on a brompton breeze past anyone

^ that's cos youre so fast D!

Nah, it's cause the old man is so fast.

actually i've seen the brompton race at the smithfields nocturne
even the slowest of those chaps in their suits and ties would show me the way home
i take it all back

Received a fist to the face today. Overtaking a nodder, without checking her shoulder the arm swings straight out and bam! Right in the face. We were only 5meters in front of the junction and she was right over in the gutter. Would have been seriously nasty had it been a car.

Either you were too close or she was an orangutan

Wow.

That was too close? Oh, I'll give nodders a wider berth next time.

Wow.

http://pinewooddesign.co.uk/2008/04/11/big-daves-gusset/

Not a great fan of this thread but....
Leading a snake of six Year 5 Children east along Wilton Way in Hackney this morning. Cars parked on both side make it pretty narrow. I see a woman cycling towards us, she has a dog on a lean beside her - you can probably guess what breed - and she is on completely the wrong side of the road. I keep going, expecting her to stop, but she keeps coming. I am looking straight at her and realise she is not going to stop so I bring the snake to a halt. She stops in front of me and starts saying, "Fuck, you didn't need to do that, you could fucking see I was there". I don't know what to say except "You're on the wrong side of the road". She repeats what she has just said, as do I, still thinking she is about to realise that she is in the wrong and move over. "I've got a dog" she says, by way of explanation. "I've got six nine year old kids behind me" I reply. It makes no difference. She genuinely cannot understand why we did not get out of her way. So I move over and start the snake off again and even then she cannot wait and starts going with the children still along side her and my co-instructor at the back looking as baffled and depressed as I felt.

leading a dog on a lead on a bike is illegal anyway, if that is any consolation

I saw a woman doing this up through Angel in the middle of rush hour, felt so sorry for the dog.

I think Scoble would have been most upset about the leaning dog, its going to be icey soon.

Today, n00b motorcyclist who kept blocking gaps when he realised at the last second he couldn't fit, riding much too close to me for my liking, accelerating really quickly from the lights and then meandering all over the road much slower than me but making it difficult to overtake. Finally got past him but when I went to overtake a taxi, he was sitting just alongside my back wheel so I couldn't move out, got enraged and ducked down the inside of the taxi instead without looking. Piled straight into a plastic barrier blocking off some drain works. Cue much laughter from myself, at myself, and from many peds. I is stupid...

Doph!

Doph!

Should that be "Doh!"?

Is this the thread for calling out bad typists?

Can you misspell an onomatopoeic word?

Does it read like the sound?

Does "Doh" sound like "Doph"?

Then Fuck You

Did something very similar last year on Theobalds, following a motorbike, going for a gap down the outside, who bottled it at the last second. Cos I checked over the shoulder I misjudged exactly where the van I was passing was. Clipped it and smashed the rear light cluster with my hand. Never did get a call from the driver, probably cos of all the blood on the bit of paper I wrote my details down on.