Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

There were an awful lot of people who overslept this morning, judging by the rushing going on along the CS7. Oh and as tiny as I am, I like a bit of space around me. Thank you very much.

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.

Apologies then.
All the ones I've come across (including the one I bought myself for some insane reason) have been sans rim tape.

Although to be honest the rim tape was my last concern as the bike seemed to change shape every couple of months until one day it just started falling to pieces beneath me.
If I'd have carried on with it I'd probably have found myseld just walikng around holding some handle bars with no teeth in my head.

I got called out twice on Saturday for cycling throught the Greenwich foot tunnel.

There are loads of no cycling signs and I was wrong to do so. However the tunnel was really quiet so I sheepishly got on my bike and coasted through. It just grates me having to walk through in SPDS when you quite easily and safely ride. Both the people who called me out were cyclists pushing their bikes.

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.

do it, then

cockpunch™

^^Meh, don't beat yourself up.

I definitely roll along there when it's empty, fuck walking it at 5am and no one's there?

I got called out twice on Saturday for cycling throught the Greenwich foot tunnel.

There are loads of no cycling signs and I was wrong to do so. However the tunnel was really quiet so I sheepishly got on my bike and coasted through. It just grates me having to walk through in SPDS when you quite easily and safely ride. Both the people who called me out were cyclists pushing their bikes.
That may have been me - I called out a fair few people around midday.

#realworldnegs, #smugpioustwat

I was called out yesterday morning for not letting some random take my wheel on the OKR, during rush hour.

Peeling off the line and letting buddy boy take the wind in his face was not in the spirit of cycling, apparently.

And yesterday evening some fucker took my wheel and I wasn't fast enough to drop him. Which was just annoying.

#toofatoldandslow

^You need to work on your farting.

That may have been me - I called out a fair few people around midday.

#realworldnegs, #smugpioustwat

It was in the afternoon about 4:30ish. Never mind.

Who's the cunt who rides fixed down Rosebery Avenue at about 8.30am, big headphones, often 'singing', in a big bubble?

Having been waiting at the Mount Pleasant lights for a couple of minutes, keeping an eye on the nodder hordes who gradually amassed around me, I didn't take kindly to your sudden hollering out of nowhere and high speed whipskid right through the stationary crowd and then red light, particularly as you brushed against me.

If you'd tangled in my bag strap or something, it would've been messy. Stop being selfish, please.

To be honest, I would probably not have bothered if the tunnel was quiet. It's the nutsacks that cycle in the tunnel at busy times that turns me into a spittle flecked loon.

^ I used to use a narrow alley way (north-east corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields) as part of my commute. I would get off and walk, some people do not. A common internal dialogue revolved around whether, when it was busy, it was actually better manners to ride my bike, since I take up less path space when I am on, not next to, my bike. On the other hand, you are bigger and scarier sitting up there on your bike than you are pushing it.... I don't know.

I was called out yesterday morning for not letting some random take my wheel on the OKR, during rush hour.

What in the actual fuck?!

cockpunch™

Who's the cunt who rides fixed down Rosebery Avenue at about 8.30am, big headphones, often 'singing', in a big bubble?

Having been waiting at the Mount Pleasant lights for a couple of minutes, keeping an eye on the nodder hordes who gradually amassed around me, I didn't take kindly to your sudden hollering out of nowhere and high speed whipskid right through the stationary crowd and then red light, particularly as you brushed against me.

If you'd tangled in my bag strap or something, it would've been messy. Stop being selfish, please.

cockpunch™

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It would be awfully quiet around here if that was true.

I see a lot of bad cycling but usually I don't care, but last night I saw a bit of bike-wrangling so phenomenally bad I had to share it.

A lady, on a Boris bike, taking a slow, wide U-turn just by the top entrance to Kensington Palace Gardens; in to the path of a fucking SCREAMING fire engine. There were 3 taxi's pulling towards the kerb to avoid the fire engine, which was full lights and sirens blaring and doing about 40 as the road was basically unobstructed thanks to the cabbies - this woman, however, turned so ponderously in to the road she ended up at 90 degrees to a cab that was effectively parked. The Fire Engine was honking its horn like crazy and came about as close as I've ever seen to a Fire Engine pulling an endo.

Cue every person in about 50 meters screaming 'WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING'

In terms of best outcome, the fire engine should probably have just carried on and squashed her. They could call an ambulance and carry on their way to whatever emergency they were attending. She is probably going to get splatted somewhere by something in the end, so might as well get it over with, and at least this way the ambo gets called nice and quick, by a professional, who can give the address accurately. Not sure who would be left with the responsibility of returning the Boris bike though.

How do you follow that.

I followed someone going down the Walworth Road last night on aerobars. He didn't slow up any emergency services though.

Calling myself out.

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.

So childish - yet so funny.

How do you follow that.

I followed someone going down the Walworth Road last night on aerobars. He didn't slow up any emergency services though.

Did you see the accident/collision at Camberwell? Couldn't see anything through the backed up traffic as I went though and didn't want to stop and add to the gawpers.

I was through there by 1740 and didn't see anything so guess it was later.

That junction must rank as one of the most crazy in London, there are always pedestrians trying to cross 4 lanes of traffic whilst avoiding the two ped crossings within 100 metres of each other.

I was going through at about 1820 and although there were ambos and rozzers, it seemed quite fresh.

I fucking hate it. I saw, from the top deck of a bus, two girls running through stationary north bound traffic, level with the McDonalds, rushing to get a south bound bus which was sitting by the McDonalds. They were focussing solely on the bus so didn't see the scooter, with pillion passenger, filtering up the right hand side of the stationary traffic. The first girl made the gap and the second girl got hit full on by the scooter, albeit at about 10 mph. The girl, the rider and the pillion passenger hit the deck while the other girl kept on going and for some reason laughing maniacally. The girl who got hit, got up and ran to get her bus holding her arm. The poor scooter dudes were stunned and were left with a pretty fucked looking bike.

I also live right by some traffic lights/ped crossing on Coldharbour lane and it is about 20 to 30 yrds from two bus stops but people will run out into the road rather than wait 3 min for the next bus. Came home one day to find a fire engine had ripped out one of the traffic lights, a lamp post and a load of railings because some kid had ran across the road to get a bus and not seen/heard the blues and twos. Fucking carnage all because nobody seems to be taught how to cross the road anymore.

I rode past at about 1825, didn't look pretty. I hate that whole stretch from Denmark Hill to Elephant, too many impatient drivers, suicidal pedestrians and RLJ cyclists. I avoid walworth road as much as possible.