Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Having a sticker saying so on your Dolan does not necessarily make you 'Supreme'.

With the way you ride and a semi-functional front brake only on your ss, I suggest you replace it with a sticker saying 'Prize Chump'.

White San Marco Saddle? Rode past one in kennington?

If you're overweight and were wearing a white t-shirt and one of those poncey blue canvas backpacks and riding a red and white Fuji Track round Old Street roundabout today, you're a prick. Not that you even saw me, as I was riding round in primary while you moved out of the wrong lane at the last minute without even a cursory glance of your shoulder, but if you'd have clipped my back wheel any harder I'd have gone down with a van right behind me.

I was too busy staying alive to call you a cunt then, so I'll have to say it now and hope you read it.

Sorry mate, I was distracted by a colourful looking bird.

^ Sorry mate, that was me with a spray tan in a bikini.

And feathers?

Saw a cyclist yesterday take out a pedestrian cycling the wrong around the one way system in Wimbledon.... obviously the ped didnt look to his left because its a one way road.... cyclist's fault.

If you're overweight and were wearing a white t-shirt and one of those poncey blue canvas backpacks and riding a red and white Fuji Track round Old Street roundabout today, you're a prick. Not that you even saw me, as I was riding round in primary while you moved out of the wrong lane at the last minute without even a cursory glance of your shoulder, but if you'd have clipped my back wheel any harder I'd have gone down with a van right behind me.

I was too busy staying alive to call you a cunt then, so I'll have to say it now and hope you read it.

clipped your back wheel? so they were behind you?

I was heading West along Victoria Embankment yesterday, which is a disaster zone right now due to road improvements, and was amazed to see a middle aged couple on Boris bikes cycling East, toward me, into the teeth of the (one way at that point) traffic.

This would have terrified me, but they looked ok with it.

FUCKING HELL!

A never-ending torrent of spazmos!

As I muttered "fucking hell..." to myself earlier, watching the seemingly endless stream of cyclists flow into the tiny gaps either side of a stationary bus and cram themselves sardine like between the kerbs, its side, each other, I suddenly wondered if someone leaning on the corner of the bus with one hand and riding a bike with no brakes was in a position to pass judgement...

These people were cunts. And the guy who nearly took me out as he turned the wrong way into a one way road, he was a cunt of titanic proportions. But I was a cunt too, and so was everyone else in their own unique way, and I was too busy riding my bike in the sun to care about it anyway.

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I was heading West along Victoria Embankment yesterday, which is a disaster zone right now due to road improvements, and was amazed to see a middle aged couple on Boris bikes cycling East, toward me, into the teeth of the (one way at that point) traffic.

This would have terrified me, but they looked ok with it.
Ignorance is bliss.

Ignorance can also be fatal.

Roadhouse

2 cycling policemen (or PCSOs?) in offical hi viz and helmets filtering left through miniscule gaps past buses and lorries scooting one foot on the pavement, handlebars clipping mirrors of taxis. This in jam on Great Russel street. eventually getting stuck behind a parked car. I filtered on the right as usual where there was loads of room as usual.

I managed to let them know the error of their no-room-left-filtering ways with, of course, the suggestion that they should set and example and perhaps consider cycle training.

(I wouldn't normally criticise fellow rider but these guys really should know better)

nodder plodders tend to be terrible

i have seen them riding on the pavement, terrible filtering, and riding with no lights at night

i think they are closet fixie skidders

i think they are closet fixie skidders

Apart from their huge girth and lardge arses

clipped your back wheel? so they were behind you?

They started pulling out into the lane I was in when they were right next to me, without looking at all. So I sped up and he clipped my wheel as I passed him. I could draw you a diagram.

Apart from their huge girth and lardge arses

i know a few fat fixers

(I wouldn't normally criticise fellow rider but these guys really should know better)

I thought all police riders got cycle training? It's their in-house version, but I thought that followed the National Standard?

Police do generally but not PCSOs and other assorted wardens (apart from in hackney of course )

They learn how to ride up stairs, they probably thought they could take on the gutter.

Police do generally but not PCSOs and other assorted wardens (apart from in hackney of course )

Ah, you see, that's where I went wrong. Assumptions, assumptions ...

They started pulling out into the lane I was in when they were right next to me, without looking at all. So I sped up and he clipped my wheel as I passed him. I could draw you a diagram.

No need, it makes sense to me now, thanks.

I was chatting to a PCSO up here that rides a bike around sometimes after some scotes stole a couple of bikes from work, he said they got a 2 day course run by somebody. He also said he loves doing bike chases but wasn't taught how to hop stairs or owt.