Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

cycling is a rush and cycling fast and possibly dangerously is extremely thrilling although obviously a bad idea when it comes to safety I will always choose fun over safety.
as to the danger to pedestrians or other road users I guess pedestrians should stay on the pavement and us on the road and all should be safe, we're also the weakest on the road so no worry for cars

I agree. Pedestrians should never be allowed to cross the road, ever.

Getting hit is the best rush of all. That feeling when you get knocked of... amazing. Totes agree man!

at the lights on eversholt / marylebone, barclaysenger aggressively undertakes and rlj's and gets stuck midway thru the road as he realises he's severely misjudged his speed. cars are hooting, drivers are getting pissy he's getting more and more agitated. not helped by me yelling 'if you can't ride you should take a fucking bus, mate'. then he turns on me, gives it the verbals and the 'come and have a go if you think you're hard enough, cunt!' as you do. there's a break in the traffic and fuckybollocks shifts off, goes round the corner presumably to dock his hire bike. Lights change, i pootle off, and who do i see belting round the corner at a flat out run swinging his bag like in berserker rage? i was so stunned he managed to clip me on the back of the head and off he legged it. turned around to chase him down but he'd ducked into the station at that point.

amazing! made my day.

/csb

BBC-dem been calling out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-24518094

Pick of the bunch on the CS2 Nodyssey today was a bellend attempting to motor pace himself 6 inches from the back wheel of a scooter whilst configured into some sort of melted aero position.

Nodyssey

Rep for this excellent coinage.

It is good. So do you call the first one to RLJ who leads a whole pack through Nodysseus?

It is scientifically proven that you have a 50% or greater chance of your victim having been stupid enough to follow you into the road but not quick / smart enough to jump out of the way of the truck.

Is this bit true or just internetz stats?

No, just Jeez stats.

I bow before you fellow troller.

This guy?

https://twitter.com/sparkes/status/390159434452049920

What's it with people texting or otherwise on their phones while cycling and not realising that their drifting into the middle of the road.

What's it with people texting or otherwise on their phones while cycling and not realising that their drifting into the middle of the road.

Lack of Google Now?

guy riding on the A3 going under the new malden roundabout this morning at 7:20. No lights, quick road, narrow 3 lane road with no hard shoulder at rush hour. So far in the gutter that he was inviting people to pass where there really was no room on a bit of road he really should avoid.

You seemed pissed off that I refused to pass you until I felt it was safe, as did the drivers behind me but, fucking hell mate, I don't think you realised how much of a precious position you had put yourself in.

He had mudguards though.

Some unbelievable twattery pretty much all the way from Brixton to Westminster Bridge this morning. I swear some people are actively trying to get themselves killed. I need to start leaving the house earlier... Or do a little rain dance...

Definite Nodyssey up and down Clerkenwell road most evenings.

In the most recent installment I watched someone earnestly Mary Poppins their way across it into a Mexican standoff with a car turning right into (I think) Leather Lane. Eventually she went round it and continued across. Not sure I saw her head move left or right once during the whole manoeuvre. ..terrifying

Saw a chap holding his phone out in front of him whilst on his bike. Assumed he was taking a quick snap (bad enough in London traffic), but no - was having a face-time conversation!

saw some dickhead on a felt with 105 gruppo riding his tt bars down clapham high street.

saw some dickhead on a felt with 105 gruppo riding his tt bars down clapham high street.

That reminds me. Mother/sister/kidnapper/nanny cycling with a kid behind her. 1. He's a child. He can't keep up with you. The panting and asking you to slow down kinda gave that away

1. If you're going to turn abruptly and cut up all traffic, at least have the decency to kill just your moronic self. Leave the kid out of it.
   

guy riding on the A3 going under the new malden roundabout this morning at 7:20. No lights, quick road, narrow 3 lane road with no hard shoulder at rush hour. .

Fuck me that's not a wise choice of road, it's very quick and narrow. I commute north to south along the a3 in the morning and go through the new malden roundabout rather than under it, you can pretty much track the a3 without having to ride on it

Stopped at red on main road of a T junction at the bottom of a hill, bus turning from opposite lane. These two glide by without a care in the world, straight across the junction and directly in front of the bus. The first makes it through and the second clips the leading edge of the bus and sends themselves into a beautiful flight/skid across the rest of the junction. I winced.

Do many people on here use the Colebrooke Row cycle crossing on their commute? I just find it an absolute clusterfuck, not because it's necessarily a bad idea but it just feels like a microcosm of cunty cycling behaviour. Constant RLJing, undercutting, people going in the oncoming lane or speeding past and darting in front of you as you get to Owen street (Been clipped a couple of times). They were doing a survey on whether there should be anymore of these crossings in the area which I told them "maybe, if you can also teach people how to not be cunts"

It's been an unanswered design problem for years. No solution in sight.

I'm relatively a quiet person, esp on the bike, I prefer a head-shake and one-finger salutes when called for.
Last night on the way to Easts, somewhere in Le Ditch, some hybrid nodder dude decides that rather than wait behind a few of us, to go between two buses. He realizes he doesn't fit and actually stumbles and falls out of his plastic toe clips.
So I mouth off, "Get out of there you fucking idiot. You're going to die". Not sure he heard but girl in front of me sure did.

It's been an unanswered design problem for years. No solution in sight.

The crossing or the cunts?