Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

i am still laughing out loud.. i reckon most of these are acceptable, currently 17 ep's so far..
maybe get the box set for christmas..

Meh.. RLJ I can give and take.. Although there are some shocking risks being taken..

actually, might get me a HD goto camera instead circa £300.. still laughing and i have shit loads of work too..

They do get a bit samey, ep 1 was posted in the 'report dangerous drivers to the police' thread.

Gaz is on here, if you do a south commute and see someone with fairy lights on their rear rack that's probably him!

^ agreed alot of the same routes, but well done Gaz..

Ep 5 is a lol at the end... Dude pulling a massive wheelie wrong way up a bus lane...

Well. 16 episodes took an hour.... What to do with my time now? On a serious note it did point a lot out to me..

Think I'll take my lunch break now.

YouTube - Silly Cyclists - Episode 17

from 2:25

is youmo?

not moi, I don't track stand, I wheelie-stand.

sweet

Ha, I'm the one on the inside. When I recognised gaz at the next junction and said I'm Lfgss, the other track standing guy said we get everywhere, so should be on here too.

Oh and I was wobbling all over the shop (as usual!)

Aggressive 30-something male cyclists have become another urban cliche.
The traffic junction by holborn tube station has recently become pedestrian friendly and has traffic stopping in all directions with peds milling all over the square. Many cyclists, myself included, JRL at this point, but this Cnut next to me charged into the crowd swearing at people and telling them to move out of his way. Although he was crossing on red and they on green.
Thanks to him another 80 office workers have been converted to cyclist haters.

Simples, dont RLJ. It does nothing for our cause.

I now use red lights to track stand and feel superior to other cyclist rather than skipping them. That and for showing off how much faster I can get away from the lights than them.

Aggressive 30-something male cyclists have become another urban cliche.
The traffic junction by holborn tube station has recently become pedestrian friendly and has traffic stopping in all directions with peds milling all over the square. Many cyclists, myself included, JRL at this point, but this Cnut next to me charged into the crowd swearing at people and telling them to move out of his way. Although he was crossing on red and they on green.
Thanks to him another 80 office workers have been converted to cyclist haters.

Everyday (everytime the lights change) problem on that junction, and plenty of people jumping the lights without seemingly knowing the sequence, I am amazed that i've yet to see an accident there.

for showing off how much faster I can get away from the lights than them.

That's so impressive. Will you marry me?

gotta catch me first

I'd prefer it if you played hard-to-get.

oooooo, I see what you did there.

calling out bad drivers (busses)?

This morning I was zipping along in the cycle lane (all clear ahead of me) when a bus accelerated past me and immediately cut across my path breaking hard to stop at a bus stop. A bit of evasive action and swerving around the bus into a busy lane of traffic (thankfully there was a small gap) and everything was fine. But, had it not been for the lucky timing of a gap in the traffic things could have been a lot worse. As I wen't past the bus I gave a quick exasperated slap on the driver's window and then stopped at the next bus stop and took a photo so that I could identify the offending vehicle.

In the interests of self preservation what were you doing close enough to be overtaken by a bus with a bus stop so close by? I hope this doesn't sound pompus but I always bang on to trainees about lookng out for bus stops up ahead. If there is one there check over your shoulder for the accompanying bus to follow. You have three choices pull in and let the bus go knowing you'll have to pull out to pass it or pull out and keep it behind you or IF safe and possible move over into the next lane without anyone having to slow.

Yes but it that acknowledgement you've done something wrong and apology that makes all the difference. I know I've had cars cause me to come off in the past and if they've acknowledged their mistake and apologised etc it's not bothered me as much - it's when some dickhead does something monumentally stupid but then has a go at you for pointing out their mistakes that makes my blood boil. I always remember seeing a cyclist undertake a left turning (and indicating) HGV and having a pop at me when I tried to discuss what he'd one might be a tad dangerous...

This. Just a little aknowledgement goes a long long way.

Plastic Po-Po here riding in the gutter, with very tired knog's not really making them show up in the dark. Maybe they were working undercover, fluoro and blue PCSO panels didn't help that argument though. Didn't even acknowledge my ting ting and hello as I passed them nice and wide.

Edit - yeah, they were trying to have a chat, but riding single file so front officer was talking over his shoulder all the way. What a mess.

What I've seen of their riding could only be described as a total joke. Beyond the uniform they're a liability unto themselves.

This morning, 0830hrs, from Parliament Square to Blackfriars Bridge, there was...

• the black lycra clad City worker who thought it was amazingly clever to cycle 3 inches off my rear wheel for the entire journey, before blasting away at Blackfriars Bridge?
  
  

What a bell. Worth gently slowing down to make the point?

T.... if you do wish to over take me, perhaps you'd like to give me slightly more than 3 inches....

I also get annoyed at those overtaking me with only a few inches distance.

However, the rulebook on cyclist overtaking cyclist still seems to be only at the drafting stage. Methinks that if you insist of wide overtaking you're indulging the dopey cyclists* who thinks the road belongs to them at least one meter on each side.
"Hold your line" is also as strong rule - here on the forum at least - and if you do hold your line there shouldn't be much of an issue if people overtake you. Then there's the common sense of looking over your shoulder every few seconds - which should keep you from colliding with whatever rushes up from behind.

*not implying you are one of them Bagheera.

you're indulging the dopey cyclists* who thinks the road belongs to them at least one meter on each side.

Dopey? I think it's pretty sensible to both keep 1 metre away from the kerb (car doors, peds stepping out etc.) and expect cars to not come within a metre of you when overtaking. I mean, that's actually pretty close if you think about it and I would feel pretty uncomfortable with anything less.

Dopey? I think it's pretty sensible to both keep 1 metre away from the kerb (car doors, peds stepping out etc.) and expect cars to not come within a metre of you when overtaking. I mean, that's actually pretty close if you think about it and I would feel pretty uncomfortable with anything less.

Agreed. My driving instructor is always banging on about "keep a meter's distance from anything at the side, leave moar room" so that's the official line on distance - it is designed to keep you away from, as you say, car doors and peds; two things that will hurt a cyclist a good deal more than it would hurt a car if there is contact (obvs the ped would come off worst in the car scenario but peds wandering out in front of us lot is a lot more common than them doing it in front of a motor vehicle). A cyclist maintaining a meter's distance is reasonably likely to also be a driver and would hopefully thus have more awareness of expected behaviour on the road, both from themselves and other road users.