Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

So, who is Vlad?

An interesting story here http://www.harringayonline.com/forum/topics/story-of-a-local-bike-crash

Own up then 'Vlad'!

Let's hear your side of the story.

I hope the writer got some coin off the little cunt for their troubles.

So, who is Vlad?

There's a little bit of 'Vlad' in all of you.

(Not me, as riding braklezz fixiewixies is for pillow biters)

I'm guessing FixedStar. He's always whip skidding around Islington. Apparently.

I hope the writer got some coin off the little cunt for their troubles.

Well apparently when the injured party confronted this 'Vlad' at his trendy Islington work space, he simply smirked up from his MacBook (on which he was surfing LFGSS, probably agreeing to buy something in the classifieds which he would later renege on) and replied 'that's how I roll, if you don't like it you can suck mah balls, hater".

Vlad is RPM AICM£5.

(Not me, as riding braklezz fixiewixies is for pillow biters)

A likely story, Vlad, if that is even your real name.

There's a little bit of 'Vlad' in all of you.
(Not me, as riding braklezz fixiewixies is for pillow biters)

I've never ridden braklessessess except on the tarck.

I've never ridden braklessessess except on the tarck.

I use brakks on the tarck.

I mean, there's none that I can see fitted, but there must be some on it somewhere because they are permanently rubbing and scrubbing my top speed.

Ahem.

Hehe

A likely story, Vlad, if that is even your real name.

He might be confused with 'V Lad', famous 1940's superhero schoolboy from Leeds who battled Nazis with his array of powerful hand gestures.

Vlad, the very definition of WAC

Barclays Bike rider this afternoon on Piccadilly. He ran two sets of red lights, the second set was just as the vehicles started moving. Thankfully the cars braked in time, but much to my amusement the twat went flying over his handlebars. He looked upset when I told him he was a retarded cunt and deserved to fall off.

Now that was me.

Sorry old boy, running late for a tailors appointment.
Shirts.

how very fitting.

suits you sir

I thought I'd go for a short ride before work today, got about 5 miles down the road on to a nice single track lane type thing when I come across 3 women on mountain bikes riding side by side. Really stupid considering that they were taking up the entire road between them, even coming into completely blind bends. I politely suggested to them that what they were doing was really dangerous and that the first they'd know of a car coming the other way was it smashing into them. At this point I was told to "stop being so fucking rude" and to "mind my own fucking business" and was refused the opportunity to overtake. I thought fuck it and turned round. Keeping an eye on the local news for a horrible accident!

running red lights and wrecking people's shoulders is part of my culture.

It's part of all of our shared culture, there are too many functioning shoulders in this world.

Left work on Friday, got about 50 metres away from the office up Bunhill Row when I spot an obvious bellend turning left out of Dufferin St without bothering to look right at where traffic's coming from, instead looking over his left shoulder at his mate following him 'round the corner on a boris bike.

I get as far to the right as I can to pass him safely, but as I just about get level to him he then decides to lurch right, straight across my path to (presumably) mount the pavement and ride into the graveyard, all this without once looking over his right shoulder in the direction of traffic and (of course) without any kind of signal.

I make some kind of alarmed noise, scrub off a fair bit of speed (had already slowed a bit as he was obviously an unpredictable chopper) and his bar jabs into my leg as I sort of elbow him away.

Managed to stay upright, stopped to call him a fucking prick and a total bellend who shouldn't be on the road with him stammering reasons as to why it wasn't his fault and then I rode home with a funny leg. Still feels weird now, got me right in the quad :'(

Some of us like to ride early, therefore likewise the drinking.

I have no problem with early drinking.. as long as some riding has happened first. I'm not sure Eb feels the same about my beer coma and eventual slightly hungover re-incarnation sometime around 5pm.

I blame Jason, mostly.

Hahaha.

I yelled at 2 cyclists jumping the red here as they exited E&C roundabout without bothering to look for peds.

As I'm sat at the lights, a woman pulls up next to me and asks me why I didn't yell at the police vehicle that jumped a red coming into the junction. I replied that I didn't see it because I entered the roundabout from a different road to her.

Then I got called a "self-hating road racist" because I yelled at the cyclists I saw jumping reds rather than the police car that I didn't.

HAHAha. That's the best I've been insulted for ages. Still chuckling. Is there some therapy group I can attend for similar self-hating road racists?

Hahaha.

I yelled at 2 cyclists jumping the red here as they exited E&C roundabout without bothering to look for peds.

As I'm sat at the lights, a woman pulls up next to me and asks me why I didn't yell at the police vehicle that jumped a red coming into the junction. I replied that I didn't see it because I entered the roundabout from a different road to her.

Then I got called a "self-hating road racist" because I yelled at the cyclists I saw jumping reds rather than the police car that I didn't.

HAHAha. That's the best I've been insulted for ages. Still chuckling. Is there some therapy group I can attend for similar self-hating road racists?

That's insane, I'd have been chortling like a simpleton for the rest of the ride.

Pretty much exactly what I did. It didn't help that I also have a habit of guffawing in people's faces in these circumstances. Not the most productive resolution and doesn't really leave the most endearing first impressions :)

Blonde floppy haired cunt on highbury roundabout this morning

Not only did you pull a dick move you also looked back and sniggered before riding off,

I was coming off holloway road going right round the roundabout to the 3rd exit, he pulls out of exit 2 to go down holloway road as I'm approaching, cuts me up as im going towards my exit

I had to emergency swerve right back into the middle lane where I collided wheels with another cyclist both of us came to a stop no falling off and he didn't blame me for it, this guy stopped 5m ahead, looked back saw we were both still on foot sniggered and rode off

Had half a mind to chase him and call him a cunt.