Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

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 do this too! twice this morning. glad i'm not the only loon.

Saw the aftermath of that yesterday as well, thought i saw a bicycle involved as well, but that might have just stopped as a witness.

Thing i hate most about that stretch is there are always a lot of buses pulling over to stop,and people crossing choosing the small gaps between buses to step out into the road, so difficult to see them come.

to the RLJer on a blue Carrera gryphon this morning at Grove Park station who had the nerve to swear back.

You are part of the species that should just be allowed to be flattened by lorry (which nearly happened seconds later after you jumped 2 reds and almost straight into a the path of a dustbin lorry)...

Either learn to not ride like a complete idiot, or just position yourself so the lorry actually flattens you!

reported for suggesting violence towards cocks, violence and cocks are no allowed on lfgss

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Yesterday I saw someone fixing a puncture in a bus lane! Bike upside down, them sitting in the road fitting a new inner tube.

I suggested they move to the pavement, they looked confused.

just found this and I am relieved that so many people get frustrated at such bad cycling you see so often,

so, how far should you go with the neighbour who insists on cycling down our one way street the wrong way ?

and a question to all those who have not found the Outer Circle in Regents Park (despite having to cross it to enter the park) and cycle in the park, how do you read the posts here when somehow you can miss the 3 ft high "NO CYCLING" painted on the tarmac as you cycle across it ! I only complain as it means those of us with toddlers / v young kids cannot let them walk on their own for fear on some nutter on a bike mowing them down.......

ok no one on here, as we can all read but clearly some others ???

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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.

It seems a popular way of displaying ones manhood, devil-may-care attitude, and general level of intestinal fortitude amongst young(ish) males in the Brixton area to walk out in front of traffic deliberately slowly- looking neither left nor right.

The goal here is to make traffic slow to avoid you- in clear deference to your super-awesome power.

This is very common when crossing the Brixton Road, on ones way to the bus stop.

Presumably the bus-queue is a target rich environment for the young men to display there awesomeness too via the SlowWalk method.

is it acceptable to steal their hats as you ride past?

^ 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 know where you mean - I use that every day I'm in London. I ride it, but slowly and carefully and stop if necessary. I'm in good company - Lord Scott used to ride that section regularly when he was the Vice Chancellor.

Fuck me, summer's here, innit.
Had to laugh this evening at the dickhead on a CAAD 8 who pulled ahead of the 'pack' at a red light the south end of Rye Lane and stopped. He ended up going too far forwards so didn't see the light when it eventually changed and got undertaken/boxed out by the rest of us.
Tool.

I really need to try and limit the amount I post here, but I have to say it:
There is someone, who I'm sure is on here, who every morning this week at around 7:15 has displayed some truly nodderish cycling. Grey cap, backpack, jeans with leggings underneath - you know who you are.
Going the wrong way round the Peckham one way system at the end of Rye Lane, which gained you exactly 0 seconds - congrats on that one. RLJing to the traffic island at Camberwell Green, likewise.

I'm sure you're a nice guy, but seriously, you ride like a dickhead. The worst part is, it doesn't even seem to give you an advantage. You were no faster than everyone else this morning who did stop at every light.

what about spiked cockpunch™

Dibs!

^^Show youself!

do it, then

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That doesn't answer the question of whether I was a pious arsehole or not for calling him out. All I wanted was for someone to tell me I was right.

Just remembered I saw the same guy giving the finger to a car yesterday that was indicating left before he decided to undertake it. He was annoyed, it seemed, that it decided to try and turn left.
Again, probably a stand up guy...

^Had that at the top of Kingsway the other week, car indicating left honked a fakenger going straight on in the left turn lane without a fuck, who then went a bit berserk at the driver. I said something but he didn't hear/acknowledge me.

Some dickhead in Eastborne on a BSO on the seafront. I saw him in my car mirrors so started indicating to turn left for ages.

He still kept going and when I actually stopped, because I knew he wasn't going to overtake me on the right hand side, he undertook me on the junction and called me a dickhead!

^This before or after the bigmofo (cherry edition ;)?

^Ha! Well after it! :-)

Mr Sworld is living by the highway code. Well done you sir!

Nice moment on a morning commute earlier this week when a chap on a motorcycle put his hand out to warn the cyclists behind him that the car in front had just put it's left turn indicator on.

I thanked him for his consideration.

Did he look like this?

^ hope not, he'd get done for riding a motorbike with no helmet

It's OK, that's just him off the bike. Here's him on the bike: