Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Texting radio 1? really? wow

Yeah you can tweet them too

Texting radio 1? really? wow

Have you got a problem with that?

My dear departed* brother used to bemoan the arrival of summer and the muppets it brings out onto the roads. May he ride in peace.

• He went to live in CPH.
  

Are'nt Muppets fun though!

Oh my. The joy that is Google image search. I love it.

By the way, that bear is bare. You should have marked it NSFW.

impressed by the ingenuity in that image

fuck cycling

Exactly what I had in mind today. It's the awareness that people seem to lose somewhere during the day that scares the shit out of me.

Two honorable mentions go to the girl with the bike that was WAY too big for her, a sainsbury's bag on one side, and a big ass lock on the other side of the handlebars. I congratulate your moronic wobbly RLJ'ing enough through oxford street for that bus to nearly turn you into red paste. My disbelief was made concrete when you smashed into a bunch of people at a crossing because you swung around a bus without looking or slowing down.

Second honors go to the brakeless and foot retention less dicknut that couldn't stop quickly enough (You looked so fucking cool) around the traflagalr square roundabout so you accelerated and cut off all the cars coming around. Nice one. You've made me hate people just a little bit more.

I'm no saint, but a little awareness goes a long way.

Calling myself out.

Cycling to work this morning I overtook a line of slower cyclists. Big wide road, car behind was rather far back (40m) when I cheked before I moved yet they then sped up, beeped at and gesticulated their annoyance at, I guess, beign held up.

Of course it was stationary traffic up ahead (where it went to two lanes) and the red light meant she was sat there as I knocked on her window.

Unfortunately I lost it when she said I shoudn't be overtaking etc. Instead of reasoned argument I resorted to childish name calling. I noticed she was obese and pathetically commented on it in a cycling context.

It was childish and had I reasoned with her she might be more amenable to cyclists in the future and perhaps recognise her own error.

It didn't help that as she then drove past (flicking the Vs) I resorted to puffing out my cheeks and putting my arms out to demonstrate the shape of a morbidly obese person.

Calling myself out.
I resorted to puffing out my cheeks and putting my arms out to demonstrate the shape of a morbidly obese person.

^belly laughed at this image.

puffing out my cheeks and putting my arms out to demonstrate the shape of a morbidly obese person.

Wait a minute, should you not be holding onto the handlebars whilst you are cycling?

Yeah, that was me. How embarrassing.

Really sorry, but I was rushing to return an overdue library book.

Wait a minute, should you not be holding onto the handlebars whilst you are cycling?

We were on different roads at that point. One went to the left the other to the right with a bit of park in the middle. To be honest I had one hand on one hand off.

Still no excuse.

You should have asked her if she would prefer something shiny that goes from 0 to 160 in seconds. If she said "Yea" offer to buy her some bathroom scales.

^^ Dude, I'm not serious. In certain situations I would probably resort to weight/shape based insults, and if I did, you can rest assured that my puffed cheeks, arms sticking out demonstration would have known no bounds, I would have gone in two handed. That's right, no hands on the handlebars. Probably not even looking where I was going.

You should have asked her if she would prefer something shiny that goes from 0 to 160 in seconds. If she said "Yea" offer to buy her some bathroom scales.

Badum, tish.

Where any of you riding a black Create this morning at Euston? if so I am sorry that I was not going fast enough for you but there was enough space for you to overtake me...hell the fact I said ''go ahead mate'' was signal for you to do exactly that (I was cruising man, not racing). Also next time you call someone a cunt and get told to man up and say that to my face try to have the testicular fortitude to back up your words instead of pedaling off as quickly as your skinny lycra clad legs could muster, in addition your obviously panic induced getaway nearly got you killed when you whipped in front of a turning bus. In summary you sir are a grade A cocksucker, kthxbai.

lycra + create = does not compute.

don't worry his bike will disintegrate from under him soon enough.

Creates have a a high rate of punctures because.......non of their wheels have rim tape in. mThey come assembled with no bloody rim tape.

Priceless.

Assembled with no rim tape? is that for real!?!?

Certainly is.
Same for the No Logo ones too.

Marginal gains.

HatBeard - lycra + create = does not commute.

Ftfy

Shout out to the chap who I assume is on here that did the old 'RLJ to the traffic island in the middle of the big Oval crossroads' that some cunt seems to do everyday.
No foot retention + fixed + one brake as well. Nice one.

AND... the total nobber/nodder who went through the lights at Vauxhall bridge Northbound and nearly crashed into the peloton going West-East. I've only got 12 weeks left of this commute, I'd really like to not see someone get killed in that time.

Certainly is.
Same for the No Logo ones too.

In April 2012 I bought a No Logo black 40mm flipflop wheelset fitted with tyres, tubes, sprockets etc from their eBay outlet. the wheels arrived in a NoLogo-branded box, with my invoice/packing slip in one of those pouches on the outside.

They had rimtapes.