Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Except its not sunny in Edinburgh. Today I watched a lady give me a dirty look because I'd stayed 10 ft back from a left turning coach get right up onto its right hand corner. I was biting my lip as I watched the tail swing to the right. She yelped as she realised why they have big fuck off stickers on the back saying "WATCH FOR TAILSWING"

Winner

I was filtering down the outside of sloooow moving traffic approaching some lights on Mile End rd just now. There was a behooded Borisenger in front of me centre lane. No shoulder check, he suddenly accelerates and pulls out to overtake so I say "your right mate". "What you sayin" comes our chirpy response. "I'm on your right, watch your line". "Fuck off then you cunt".

Lovely!

Too polite. Just say, "Do that again and I will end you!" Then ride off.

On the way home after Regent's Park yesterday, an articulated lorry was waiting at the lights to turn left into Prince Albert Rd from Gloucester Gate. Very unusual (not to mention unsuitable) place for such a large vehicle.

Naturally the driver had left a suitably large gap down the left hand side to give them space to make the awkwardly tight turn. I approached from the outside of the traffic and stopped behind the lorry, but from there wasn't able to block the gap down the left. Sat there waiting to shout at people who would inevitably ride into the kill zone...

...not one fucker did.

Am amazed that considering the general (shite) standard of cycling round there on an evening, the message about the dangers of undertaking lorries at junctions might be getting through. I checked back over my shoulder as I set off and there was a line of about half a dozen cyclists waiting. Those further back would have been blocked by bikes in front of them, but it's not uncommon to see people hop up on the kerb in those circumstances and no one did that either. Almost have a new found respect for my fellow commuters.

RLJ'er fined £850 + £930 for serious injury to City pedestrian. Much more press coverage than usual for a pedestrian injury:
The Times
Evening Standard
Roadcc
London Cycling Campaign

and much more

A considerable more amount than a motorised vehicles ironically enough.

The cynic in me thinks that if the accident had involved a car, the driver would have received a smaller fine by far.

Not just that, no newspaper coverage, no report of dangerous driving, nothing, just filed as a acceptable normal everyday occurrence.

(thought doesn't make that cyclist any less of a cunt)

Horrible thing to have happened to the chap that was crashed into.

The cynic in me thinks that if the accident had involved a car, the driver would have received a smaller fine by far.

WAC cyclist though.

And the cynic in me thinks that if it had been a car driver there would have been a lot more outrage on this forum; especially about this point: City of London police had hoped to bring a more serious charge but the Crown Prosecution Service overruled them and only brought the lowest possible charge.

open to a civil action though, apparently.

Every case is meant to be considered on its merits and the fine reflects that .. blah blah blah

I couldn't help comparing this one with what Jemjah said was the first ever successful prosecution for careless driving in the City of London after a cycle crash.
http://www.lfgss.com/post1455991-1.html

RLJ'er fined £850 + £930 for serious injury to City pedestrian. Much more press coverage than usual for a pedestrian injury:
Evening Standard

Remarkably similar to this:
https://www.lfgss.com/thread33403.html#post1067013

Zing!

WAC cyclist indeed.

WAC victims wife also, if the quoted "It's about time people stopped worrying about cyclists being killed by lorries if they do not conduct themselves in the right manner." is accurate to what she said. Probably was said in the heat of the moment but entirely unnecessary and unhelpful.

Sentencing defies reason sometimes.

Indeed it can, but if the CPS have charged someone with a minor offence then the judge/magistrates have to sentence for that offence.

Police are right on this one, sentence should have been much harsher

I imagine that civil proceedings will totally rinse that c*nt of a cyclist. Brain-damaging a city lawyers is like rear-ending a Ferrari - the cost to repair or compensate the lifestyle will be massive.

The quote by the wife is obviously in the heat of the moment. Her husband is still a mess after a year. She's allowed to hate cyclists for a while I would say.

I imagine that civil proceedings will totally rinse that c*nt of a cyclist. Brain-damaging a city lawyers is like rear-ending a Ferrari - the cost to repair or compensate the lifestyle will be massive.
Some reports say the cyclist had legal insurance cover so the insurance company will have to pay.

I do call out at RLJ's from time to time but most of them have headphones on and therefore are blissfully unaware of my diatribe :|.

This case prompted me to check my Public Liability cover with my house contents insurance. £2m probably would not cover life-changing injuries to a high earner with 2 children.

Someone will pay out massively that's for sure. But I don't want anyone life to be ruined, not the ped's physically or the cyclist's financially. But his lack of due care is infuriating and I'm lacking sympathy for him massively.

is it me or are the 'summer cyclists' out on the road ruining my daily commute since monday?

Rather summer cyclists then cars and wagons.

I do call out at RLJ's from time to time but most of them have headphones on and therefore are blissfully unaware of my diatribe :|.

even better for calling out WAC

Rather summer cyclists then cars and wagons.

true but thats a year round woe

is it me or are the 'summer cyclists' out on the road ruining my daily commute since monday?

Then don't let them bother you.

Then don't let them bother you.

how?