Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

And a time-trial helmet? Really?!

Maybe it was really windy?

Actually it was really hot. He must have been roasting!

Not too windy for me to do 30 miles with a Spok on my bike, anyway... ;)

all the gear, no idea

I think you're missing the point, it's not "all the gear, no idea" in the traditional sense. They're not under the illusion that all the gear will give them an idea. They just like having all the gear.

Actually it was really hot. He must have been roasting!

Not too windy for me to do 30 miles with a Spok on my bike, anyway... ;)

Roasting what? A chicken?

For the sake of the mental image, I'm going to assume he had a 20lb turkey under there.

I had a shocker of an encounter with a terrible cyclist this morning waiting for the lights at moorgate.

first the bastard rides straight into the back of me hitting my rear wheel, I turn around and get a mumbled apology. i turn back around and the wanker only rolls forward and puts his arm on my shoulder while he tries to wobble into a trackstand. WAC. was going to have a long old chat about cycle training with him but I turned off and he went straight on.

if it hadn't been multigrooves I might have been proper pissed off about the whole thing.

csb

New sports science research has found that flexing the arms and allowing the head and shoulders to oscillate whilst cycling can help increase power to the pedal stroke by 56%.
Furthermore, extensive air tunnel testing has revealed that nodding the head vigourously up and down creates an effect which effectively 'tricks' the aerodynamic force into 'thinking' the area it is acting on has gone or moved away, in much the same way that a sniper would find it far harder to zero in on a target which is constantly moving. Researchers at the University of Birmingham have been working alongside pro teams such as Garmin to confirm that riders who sit upright and cycle with a pronounced 'nod' will be subject to 23% less aerodynamic drag than riders who simply reduce their frontal area (with a time trial position, previously thought to be optimal).

liars Wednesday thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Dogs have know about aero-nodding for years

Yesterday and today it's been national cycle/drive like a bellend day. I can't for the life of me work out why.

I could have flipped out like a ninja and killed everybody this morning.

Jamaica Road, date line 7:30 in the morning.

Nobber Number 1 (who will feature heavily in this cool story) begins by riding up the inside. In itself, irritating, but not worth getting my pants in a bunch for. Then he cuts in front of me and slows right down, forcing me to brake and swerve. He gets called out for being a dick.

Further up the road, a rider again comes up the inside, flings there right arm out (sans looking, natch) and rides across my front wheel. Brake, swerve, call them a dick, rinse, repeat. Surprise, surprise, it's Nobber Number 1 again.

Nobber Number #1 bleats about not being a dick as he cuts back behind me, as I pull to the left, to come up the inside of me again, and actually crash into me, promptly accusing me of trying to knock him off his bike.

Fuck you Nobber Number #1. You cycle like a brick.

tl;dr Nobber Number 1 is Nobber Number 1.

you are dancing james, and i claim my £1

My commute was quite good fun, apart from the now 100% standard "slowest person pushes to the front" thing, but hey- c'est la vie.

I miss having nodders on my commute... I head south to north, Surrey to hammersmith. Hardly anyone.

Can't wait to be back on the cs7! :)

I overtook someone seven times this morning such was their habit of squeezing to the front and jumping traffic lights. It also made me think how much time I spend waiting at traffic lights when I cycle in London

Well I don't know about you but I find I lose about 4 mph in town due to waiting and lights.

New sports science research has found that flexing the arms and allowing the head and shoulders to oscillate whilst cycling can help increase power to the pedal stroke by 56%.
Furthermore, extensive air tunnel testing has revealed that nodding the head vigourously up and down creates an effect which effectively 'tricks' the aerodynamic force into 'thinking' the area it is acting on has gone or moved away, in much the same way that a sniper would find it far harder to zero in on a target which is constantly moving. Researchers at the University of Birmingham have been working alongside pro teams such as Garmin to confirm that riders who sit upright and cycle with a pronounced 'nod' will be subject to 23% less aerodynamic drag than riders who simply reduce their frontal area (with a time trial position, previously thought to be optimal).

Shamelessy nicked this to wind up club mates

I'm a younger, better dressed dancing james.

Fighting talk.

Bareloads of Scottish nodders undertaking on the left and pushing in front at lights only to be fumbling with gears when the lights go green.

Biggest salute goes to the chap on the Boardman who's shoe fell off landing him straight onto his top tube. Champ didn't even flinch. I'd have been howling like a baby. I assume he was a eunuch.

Lots of Scottish girls in short shorts though, so its not all bad.

^ Naughty sexist comment!

Also, how do you know they were Scottish?

does it count as bad riding to pull up onto the pavement which is clear for at least 150m to let a few car's overtake on a narrow road and then get back on the road ?

^ Naughty sexist comment!

Also, how do you know they were Scottish?

Because he's in scotland.

I've started to regard the riders of Boardman bikes with the same suspicion that I usually offer to Addy Lee drivers and National Express coaches. It's like a giant moving warning sign.

Boardman bike multiplied by football sock/shorts multiplied by being ridden on the drops = DANGER WILL ROBINSON

@Khornight2

Hopefully this short clip will sustain you until you can return to the commuter heaven that is CS7:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLfSe6v4o3c