Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

It's hard to remain calm when the twats keep coming. (sounds a bit rude)

Indeed and they were coming at me from all directions this morning. Plenty of them out there now the weather is getting better. I saw untold people cycling round Regents Park last night with no lights. They must have set out for work not realising it is no longer light at 6. it is very dark around there as it is

Even with lights, the darkness of my soul makes it very difficult to see at times.

bus shouldering, kidney punching...
this is why I'm here....
i don't like violence, but i 'get it'.
what's right is that the kid got over the road safely.

Wondering how you "holding your bars and riding you onto the opposite carriageway"
Would have liked to witness this...

come to a cross race, stand at the first corner and watch very carefully, actually probably just watch me very carefully, not much dark arts being practiced by the rest of the bunch these days.

Bad drivers are also bad cyclists, surprise. In-a-hurry pedestrians are also in-a-hurry cyclists. Each person has a chance to breath and slow down, accept others around them and be safe.

Normally, as mentioned before, I am against escalating, but on this one one I'm with you Ramaye. If it had been one of my children on the crossing, I would have been very upset about someone going over the crossing on a bike. There are a few Essex Road cyclists who have learnt this.

I presume you did remind the guy that if someone is on a crossing you do not go over it, even if you think it is safe... you must wait until they have finished crossing and are back on the pavement. But he did not accept the advice?

Probably for >>>>i confess

I confess I wish to do many of the practises detailed by BMMF above however am worried if I try any shoulder-barging, bar-holding etc the only prat on the floor will be yours truly.

need to htfu

threatening to hit me if I tried a stunt like that again .

Someone calling me out like that would be enough for me to take him up on the offer, generally those sort of mouthy fuckers back the fuck down when you call their bluff.

I presume you did remind the guy that if someone is on a crossing you do not go over it, even if you think it is safe... you must wait until they have finished crossing and are back on the pavement. But he did not accept the advice?

The pedestrian has the right of way when on the crossing - it does not mean that vehicles are not allowed to go through.

If a pedestrian is on a crossing, vehicles are not permitted to overtake other waiting vehicles in order to go through the crossing.

From the highway code: https://www.gov.uk/using-the-road-159-to-203/pedestrian-crossings-191-to-199
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Zebra crossings. As you approach a zebra crossing

look out for pedestrians waiting to cross and be ready to slow down or stop to let them cross

you MUST give way when a pedestrian has moved onto a crossing

allow more time for stopping on wet or icy roads

do not wave or use your horn to invite pedestrians across; this could be dangerous if another vehicle is approaching

be aware of pedestrians approaching from the side of the crossing.

From the legislation:

*Precedence of pedestrians over vehicles at Zebra crossings
*
Section IV Regulation 25 (1) Every pedestrian, if he is on the carriageway within the limits of a Zebra crossing, which is not for the time being controlled by a constable in uniform or traffic warden, before any part of a vehicle has entered those limits, shall have precedence within those limits over that vehicle and the driver of the vehicle shall accord such precedence to any such pedestrian.

For the purposes of the ZPPPCRGD, vehicle also means bicycle, AFAIK.

Are there likely to be more bad cyclists now that the weather seems to be perking up?
Saw so many people RLJing today and yesterday whilst not even seeming to be looking.

Flourogeddon will be unleashed when the clocks change at the end of the month.

you must wait until they have finished crossing and are back on the pavement.

That's motor vehicles, cyclists must give 'accord precedence', which basically means allow them to cross but don't have to wait until they've finished.

Flourogeddon will be unleashed when the clocks change at the end of the month.

They're already out there, last nights idiot was head to toe in Altura Night Vision, Hump Rucksack and more lights than the Blackpool illuminations.

This morning was a parade of hi vis all listenting to the same music (well their heads were nodding in unison with each other).

Might be time to switch to the summer hat and Oakleys. I predict Hawaiian shirts to be in fashion with LFGSS peops this year so I shall start wearing one of those soon.

I'm the top one

Commute has changed from 10 miles each way to 2 each for way for the next 8 weeks. I'm cripplingly aware that when my commute changes back it'll clash nicely with the Fluoro vest, MTB brigade taking up their steeds again.

Commute has changed from 10 miles each way to 2 each for way for the next 8 weeks. I'm cripplingly aware that when my commute changes back it'll clash nicely with the Fluoro vest, MTB brigade taking up their steeds again.

And you'll be slow from lack of exercise so you won't be able to get away from them either. Ho ho.

this morning have seen what can only be described as "wtf".
a woman on a mtb, front shocks, with a spanner-like vice holding her headset together. The handle of the spanner, pointing backwards, ready to impale. i was ready to say, "what the ..." when the lights changed...

oh and calling myself out.
hit this intersection quite late one night, on a late yellow (i swear your honour) and decide to proceed. Probably should have braked but if you swing back around, you'll see a nice hill I was coming off...oh the joy of a nice hill, new road surface and the fresh night air.

I'm the top one

Suggestion being that I am the bottom one?

Near enough.

And you'll be slow from lack of exercise so you won't be able to get away from them either. Ho ho.

No-one can be as slow as a slightly overweight man wearing a fluoro vest on an Argos Full Suspension MTB with underinflated tyres and a rusty chain. (That's not me, by the way. I'm on my sweet fixeh, dodging traffic and running lights, yeah? BRAKESAREDEATH.)

Two blokes on two tall bikes bikes that are each made up of two bikes welded together having it large with a geezer in a motor in the Mile End Rd.

Some absolute cheb end on something black, all black clothes, black wooly hat, black shades at the junction atop Stamford Hill heading towards Stokie at about 8:30 this morning.
I can't decide if he was going to power through the red lights and then shit himself because that junction is mental or because he couldn't trackstand and ended up in the middle of the road as the lights were changing.

Either way he was weaving around like a terrified squirrell and doing these weird half circle jerky movements which caused me to mouth 'Fucking twat' at him.

What an utter belm curve.