Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Ivor the Oscillator.

I think I've also seen pipe man at junction of Hampstead Road/Euston Road.

On reflection less of a danger to himself and others than umbrella man I saw negotiating the same, incredibly windy junction.

I think I've also seen pipe man at junction of Hampstead Road/Euston Road.

On reflection less of a danger to himself and others than umbrella man I saw negotiating the same, incredibly windy junction.

umbrella man= man cycling with an umbrella? That sounds like a boss to me. Provided he didn't disappear down a side street following a particular gust of wind!

Got to keep the rain off ones pipe somehow.

Needs a pipe.

Some air in the tyres wouldn't go amiss either.

And female

^ no not really. Of the ten I saw RLJ this morning all were male.

I realise this is a small sample size but on my route it tends to be exclusively male. This of course could be because the majority of riders on my commute are male so it appears that they do it more often than women, simply because there are more of them. It could be as a percentage of offenders it's equal but when I see them do it they almost always seem to be male. I shoudl know I shout 'RED' at them often enough. Someone even stopped today which was a bit unusual.

I've seen plenty of cyclists do stupid things, male and female, but the RLJ along my route (mainly busy fast moving roads) tends to be male.

Good work!

So you can get to the office with a lovely dry head, but utterly fucking soaked suit... I don't see the appeal here.

Portable hotbox, arrive everywhere wreaked.

It's to keep you pipe dry. Obvs.

It's to keep you pipe dry. Obvs.

haha, obviously.

on the roads-behaviour breeds behaviour.

so get a mountain bike and ride it off road like a loony when you wanna
'let loose'

on the roads-behaviour breeds behaviour.

so get a mountain bike and ride it off road like a loony when you wanna
'let loose'

^ worked for me

This morning at about 8am, I'm cycling along Palmer Place just after crossing Holloway Road, heading to Liverpool Road. There's a queue of traffic ahead of me stopped at the lights so I'm going pretty slowly. A guy on a red and black Cervelo road bike passes me at speed and is obviously not looking where he's going because he crashed straight ito the back of the car at the back of the queue. He was lucky not to go through the rear windscreen or do any significant damage to the car because he was going pretty fast. I stopped to check if he was ok, he said he was but looked in some pain. Don't know how much damage he did to his bike, maybe bust the forks or front wheel. It was completely his fault because the car was stationary, perhaps he'll look where he's going a bit more in future.

Some superstar went into the back of me on Bishopsgate this morning after I had been stopped for quite some time, waiting for a black cab also displaying exemplary road awareness.
Not sure what was worse - the streams of cyclists mounting the pavement to get round the car, or the fact that not only had he blocked the entire cycle path but was half into a hashed keep clear box.
WAC

This morning at about 8am, I'm cycling along Palmer Place just after crossing Holloway Road, heading to Liverpool Road. There's a queue of traffic ahead of me stopped at the lights so I'm going pretty slowly. A guy on a red and black Cervelo road bike passes me at speed and is obviously not looking where he's going because he crashed straight ito the back of the car at the back of the queue. He was lucky not to go through the rear windscreen or do any significant damage to the car because he was going pretty fast. I stopped to check if he was ok, he said he was but looked in some pain. Don't know how much damage he did to his bike, maybe bust the forks or front wheel. It was completely his fault because the car was stationary, perhaps he'll look where he's going a bit more in future.

That just made me think of a similar accident that happened to me years ago:

Bombing it down the hill. Tried to slam in the biggest gear, the chain jumped out of the smallest cog. Thought wtf?, looked down, hit a car at its rear lights and slid all along its side to land right in front of the car. All because my chain got hooked and let that distract me from noticing the traffic ahead coming to a halt. Still feel sooooo glad I didn't make a frontal hit, as I was actually going quite fast.

One of those seldom events that make you go from wtf? to WTF? in less than a split second. Anyway, true that you should be actually looking to where you're heading.

I would definitely say something

Mostly irrelevant because it's in Kyoto, not London, but one from this morning.

Dear sir,

If you are going to ride at a wobbly 5mph down a busy rush-hour pedestrian-only pavement, you do not need to ride a high-spec carbon road bike and you do not need to be clad head to toe in bright yellow lycra, topped with an equally yellow Livestrong time-trial helmet.

Additionally, you shouldn't be wobbling along the fucking sidewalk at 5mph, you berk.

At first I had to laugh because you looked like a complete plank, then I just had to facepalm and hope that people don't assume all cyclists are like you.

Yeah, you have to keep an ear out for bicycle bells vigilantly. I asked someone why all the cyclists ride on the pavement in Tokyo and not in the road, and was told that it would be 'inconvenient for cars'. Classic bit of Japanthink.

Nearly taken out by a cyclist behind me because I was stupid enough to stop at a red light for a pedestrian crossing. He was shouting at the peds not to cross as he knew he couldn't stop in time because of the water/break combination issue.

Refrained from shouting at him as I thought it could have been an honest mistake, he then proceeded to jump the next 3 red lights as well.

Girl on a purple single speed doing the same, who I think had just shouted at a car for pulling out/not giving enough room. Kind of lose the moral high-ground when you then sail through a crossing on red.

Mostly irrelevant because it's in Kyoto, not London, but one from this morning.

Dear sir,

If you are going to ride at a wobbly 5mph down a busy rush-hour pedestrian-only pavement, you do not need to ride a high-spec carbon road bike and you do not need to be clad head to toe in bright yellow lycra, topped with an equally yellow Livestrong time-trial helmet.

Additionally, you shouldn't be wobbling along the fucking sidewalk at 5mph, you berk.

At first I had to laugh because you looked like a complete plank, then I just had to facepalm and hope that people don't assume all cyclists are like you.

Spent ages chatting to some pro Triathlete guy who works for a newish bike company, he said that when he's raced in Japan, there's people with 10k worth of kit who are not even trying, they might as well be out for a ride alongside the canal. They don't pretend they're fast because they've got all the kit, they know they're dog slow, they just enjoy having all the kit.

One would think/hope, though, that with all that shit he might at least be able to ride his ROAD bike on the ROAD.

And a time-trial helmet? Really?!

all the gear, no idea