Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

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Far from me to be elitist but Fuck me there's some plonkas on the roads again on bikes.enough to make you shown up promoting cycling

If you can't beat them....

shoot them

Hmmm, now there's an idea.

I have just been a bad cyclist on my way home. :-( front light was broken, thought it was outta juice but no... In hopeless new cross at half 8, didn't even have a cycle shop nearby... it was kinda scary cycling with my front light despite the fact most drivers could still probably see me... Must start to carry a set of spare light again.l.

Hyde Park Plums. Thousands of 'em.

You can get a cream for that

I don't understand cyclists that don't want to wait at lights, so roll forward to the edge of the perpendicular road and wait there, where they can't see the lights and are very close to the moving traffic.
These people have always confused me, but now they annoy me as one of them stopped at the edge of the crossing road, waited a bit, then when I went to turn left around him when the light was green (which he couldn't see as he was past it) and he still wasn't moving, he lurched forward again, hitting my wheel. Neither of us came off luckily but he's still a twunt.

Hyde Park Plums. Thousands of 'em.
Resulting in a plum jam no doubt?

WHY do you crawl past me on the left at lights, then ride off late/slowly/wobbly, only for me to pass you again, and then repeat the whole process at the next lights?

To that twat who squeezed pass between me and the kerb and undertook me when turning right onto Oswin Street, at the back of LCC in Elephant just 10 mins or so ago, I stick by what I say, a bit of indication would be nice. That is before not fucking after you took a turn.

To the wobbly twat who ploughed into me when I was setting off from the lights today, I then rode past you only to watch you wobble through two sets of red lights, i could not make out who was wobbling more you or the bike that you have kept in the shed all winter. You are an accident waiting to happen.

I watched a guy sailing through a red last night.

All was perfectly safe, no cars / peds about, but as he free-wheeled through he took one foot off the pedal and hovered it a few mm off the ground.

I assume this was to sort-of-look-as-if-i'm-just-a-ped-walking-my-bike-across-the-road-officer though obviously it was rather more sort-of-look-like-a-twat effect.

It made me do a LOL out loud.

This is so weird. I just saw a guy do this this morning (in a suit and fluo vest) but he dismounted and coasted through the crossroads with one foot on the pedals and one foot nearly on the floor then remounted once through, all without actually getting off the bike properly.

If you're gonna jump a red mate (which you shouldn't) don't fanny about.

To the guy on the cheap Chinese carbon road frame on bow road this morning, you are not Chris Hoy and this is not the track world championships, please stop undertaking into tiny gaps. Thanks

Was this guy you??

Still no chain on the roadie, so that would be unlikely.

I reckon it's an epidemic. Had two people try to undertake at E&C North, almost squeezing me into the next lane. The sun's out, that's all.

Noddergeddon 07.30 this day.
I stop at the left rear of a bus which has in turn stopped at a red light. The bus is angled slightly nose into the kerb and there are railings, not a safe place to go.
Small gap between me and the bus, not enough to get a bike through, right?
Behind me a crowd of fluoro nodders. Around the outside comes Mr Nod himself, yaking away on his Iphone whilst wobbling towards me. He goes straight past me, clips my bars "sorry, mate" he mumbles before half scooting himself to the point where his handlebars will not fit between bus and railing. All the while jabbering away on said phone.
I wasn't going to say anything but I was genuinly concerned for his saftey, so I call out.
"Watch it matey, if the bus moves you could get caught".
His reply: "Fk off". And back to the phone.
Lights go green and sure enough bus moves forward about 2 m, bars get caught and Mr Nod is lucky not to get squished. Mr Nod heaves bike up and hooks bars over railing allowing bus to move off.
I pedal past and give the obvious "I told you so".
His reply? "fk off" and he is back to his phone as if nothing has happened.
If Darwin was right why does this guy even exist?

^This proves creationism

Admission of guilt. I fell over whilst track standing this morning. Fortunately this was only witnessed by pedestrians.

please stop undertaking into tiny gaps. Thanks

I reckon it's an epidemic. Had two people try to undertake at E&C North, almost squeezing me into the next lane. The sun's out, that's all.

All this undertaking is because we forummers ride so assertively and leave a real tempting gap between ourselves and the kerb for the kerb crawlers to sneak past on the left. I suppose all we can do is keep setting a good example and to glance over our left shoulder now and then to see if we can catch them

My new pet hate is the oblivous slow girl on the basket fronted bike on Kingsland Rd (could be one of many) who drags herself up the outside of the crowd at traffic lights (usually last one to arrive) and then pulls off really slowly, pulling over in front of everyone forcing everyone to overtake only for this to occur at next lights ad infinitum.

Its just the arrogant obliviousness to everyone else who has been waiting in queue that annoys me.....

Need to go and have a quiet sit down now......

My new pet hate is the oblivous slow girl on the basket fronted bike on Kingsland Rd (could be one of many) who drags herself up the outside of the crowd at traffic lights (usually last one to arrive) and then pulls off really slowly, pulling over in front of everyone forcing everyone to overtake only for this to occur at next lights ad infinitum.

Its just the arrogant obliviousness to everyone else who has been waiting in queue that annoys me.....

Need to go and have a quiet sit down now......

There's one woman who does this ALL THE FUCKING WAY from the top of Clapham Common right through to Parliament Square. Probably in her 40s, pink fluoro, rides a step-through hybrid. I sometimes get my commute timed to match hers and once we're together she follows me like a bad smell.

I overtake her on every stretch, only for her to jump EVERY FUCKING RED I'm stopped at with a smug look on her stupid fucking face. Repeat until dead.

If I see you I'm a fuck you up bitch.

My new pet hate is the oblivous slow girl on the basket fronted bike on Kingsland Rd

Need to go and have a quiet sit down now......

There's one woman who does this ALL THE FUCKING WAY from the top of Clapham Common right through to Parliament Square.

....

If I see you I'm a fuck you up bitch.

Chill geezers
It's these people we want on the road and loads more of them!
You're bringing the angry motor culture road rage to the cycle culture. You're the SUV cyclists hooting and bumping anyone in your way.
Chill

Chill geezers
You're the SUV cyclists hooting and bumping anyone in your way.
Chill

That's the thing though. We're waiting patiently in queues and at lights, while slow morons ignore these points of etiquette/crucial elements of the Highway fucking Code and get in our way. It is they who are rude in action, we're just rude verbally.

Try calmly explaining to her why it is not a good idea for her to cycle in this way?