Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

i got tutted and signaled at, as I rolled past an intersection on southwark st.
my green light, by a "pedestrian" in a wheel chair, who wanted me to hurry up as he wanted to jay-walk. i greased him off.
yo, i'm calling out the invalid!

I make you right, if folk aren't looking where they're going and taking up more space than is necessary. However did you try and say anything like "hello" to grab their attention?

cue lionel ritchie posts

i didnt and to be honest i was just glad to get past safely...

i suppose i could have used my windscreen wash like i've had done to me ;)

With his car horn? Hope not.

i didnt and to be honest i was just glad to get past safely...

i suppose i could have used my windscreen wash like i've had done to me ;)

Last time I try and read/reply posts on my mobile. Apols.

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This means that they should have an awareness of the people around them and not be so selfish.

Want to go to a shop? Look at the traffic. Be it pedestrian, cyclist, taxi or whatever you don't just decide that you want to go somewhere regardless of what everyone else's doing. I keep finding myself checking over my shoulders when I'm walking down busy streets so that when I change direction I'm not cutting someone else off. Cunts who insist of walking in a big group and refusing to split to make i easier for everyone else deserve a slap. Just like all the people who walk two abreast in the centre of a canal towpath. It doesn't hurt to allow other people to go on their way unhindered.

yes yes yes. repped

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see above. i refer you to our convo in the pub on friday. it's about giving the tiniest fuck about not making other people's life difficult. it is not okay if this simply never enters your mind so you're not making the concious decision to make the world shitter for everyone else.

Or stand still at the bottom of the escalator, peering at a map, a map of northern Europe.
repped cause i real-life laughed

Was coming to the end of Saville row(riding in the middle) going to turn left onto Vigo st. Pedestrian on the right(walking in the road along parked cars)

not excusing the guy's smugness or physically accosting you. but i will just say that you have to walk in the road on vigo street sometimes. often.

back on topic, i think it might be a genuine, no exaggeration *minority *of cyclists on my commute who ever look behind them. even when approaching a turning they are going to take - i would have expected even lousy cyclists would check their shoulder then.

Yep, only a tiny minority do it, and only a minority of those that do do it well. It isn't just cyclists though.

NH = spot on....

at the end of the last page (soz everyone - as you were).

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Just calling myself out. Must do better next time.

I was a passenger in a car earlier, there was a gutter rider riding along in the parking spaces with one van parked at the end, the rider suddenly swerved out into the stream of traffic without any checking to see what was behind.

A couple of minutes later we were driving along a one way street and lo and behold, the same fucking idiot was riding down the street the wrong way, right in the middle but looking at the ground. We had to stop the car and it was only at the last moment when she looked up and realised she was about to plough into the front of a stationary car.

However she did have a helmet and fluoro clothing on, so was obvs invincible.

gutter rider

There was an epic example of this heading south down Walworth Road this eve. Even went so far as to swerve into a parking bay and back out into the road. It was like he was running on a rail 8" from the kerb.

One guy today was cycling the kerb doing a very cool looking skid stop would have been nice if he'd given some courtesy to pedestrians too as it was a very narrow kerb.

Yes I know thou shalt not kerb cycle but infrastructure here in Belfast, Norn Ire lousy. Best ones that the ones on a kerb with a helmet on...extra safety :)

LCC really need to bring out a better message to help rider understood the danger of being a gutter bunny.

There was also a Dulwich Paragon rider this morning (full kit, Ti road bike) heading North, just at the bend before E&C. I was in the middle of the bus lane watching a grey Skoda Octavia indicate left as he wanted to head down towards Kennington. I knew there was about 50yrds of bus lane left but I thought, "this guy might pull in a bit early" and he did. No harm done really, I was well aware and just as I was glancing over my shoulder, about to move out to the next lane as I was heading right at the roundabout, I see the aforementioned DP rider coming past so I let him go before moving. He then pulls up alongside the Skoda and gives him the usual WTF signals. Completely unnecessary. Yes the guy used the bus lane a bit early but I was the closest cyclist to him and had plenty of time to see what he was doing and did not feel in anyway endangered. The driver then of course remonstrated with the DP rider and they had a bit of a verbal exchange. The DP rider then moved forward to the ASL and proceeded to take a picture of the front of the car. Again, this would have achieved nothing, all it proved was that the car was sitting perfectly legally at the traffic lights and it just pissed the driver off. The driver was then cut up by a Boris Biker who had been over on the left then decided they wanted to turn right when the lights changed. Hopefully the driver didn't take out his rage for these two dicks on somebody else further down the road.

Waiting at traffic lights this morning on Crossroads near Holloway Road. Peds crossing, nodder on Brompton rides straight through and rides around girl crossingthe road. I wait for lights to turn green and then end up catching the rider up a bit further up the road. I called him out for it. Am I a busybody? Afterwards I kind of wondered if i was in the right or just some pious arsehole who goes round looking to call people out.

Noddergeddon is upon us.

My 9am commute from Plumstead to Goodge Street is normally pretty nod-free up until London Bridge area. Not any more. Yesterday, I had at least a couple of adrenaline fuelled pissflaps go for dodgy high-speed undertakes at a red light, and there were a whole heap of wobbly twunts meandering along the road in random, unpredictable squiggles. Some proper future Darwin award winners.

Big lass with red dyed hair on a road bike in Kennington/Oval yesterday;
Its not a road race, there's no points for the sprint finish up to the red lights.
Honking on the bars and throwing your bike around while dangerously overtaking so you can be the first to the lights will only end one way. It better not be me you take out.
Silly, and all the others you overtook in the 7pm peloton thought the same.

If you are the dude on the yellow SS witha red messenger bag, early thjis morning near Holborn. I called you out and we got into a heated exchange. Accept it... You are RLJing and its pretty dooshish! Try not just call people c**ts so easily in future. Thanks bud

bloke on a road bike ?mamil, mile end/cambridge heath rd junction

bus stopped in bus lane, I check behind and he is approaching very closely just off my rear right side

I suggest that when he can see all the cyclists will need to pull out to go round bus isnt an ideal time to overtake (especially that slowly)

"if you see me coming you need to get in the slow lane"

WAC. The kind of answer you get daily off dicks in cars

hate the idea that only some cyclists are good enough for the road but pretty sure the last couple of pages are indicative of noddergeddon

to the gentleman who was in black this morning with a black north face back pack on a black ss on Lambeth Road between 8/8.15 this morning.

You sir, cycled like a dick. Jumping a red on a ped crossing when a school kid was crossing causing you to swerve and them to shit yourselves was neither big nor clever.

fuck cycling

That was me. Really sorry, I dropped a contact lens and was texting Radio 1 at the time (to see if they'd play that song that sounds a bit like boxes of cutlery being thrown down some stairs), bit difficult to be 100% law abiding in those circumstances I'm sure you'll agree!