Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

A secondary pleasure of this relaxed commuting style is drafting the first few cars through the junction and overtaking the gutter riders and wobble-merchants with impunity.

Indeed - at the lights on London Road coming up to St George's Circus, so many riders weave round the waiting buses to get in front of them. The result is that I'm free of the melee when the lights change, I can draft the bus and, when it's about to pull into the stop on Waterloo Road, I am ready to fly round its offside past the same riders.

The best ones are where you get an audible 'tut' from behind, or even a request to let them past. Which is stubbornly refused, obviously.

I've never refused to let people past, I normally just say "where are you trying to get to?" and they point at the side of the vehicle and say "that space!" and I shout "THERE IS NO SPACE!"

Then they push past me and go and wait in blind spots anyway.

kill them with fire hats!

Never try to stop (bad cyclist) middleofnowhere getting past. He'll just ride into your back wheel.

kill them with fire hats!

Where can I buy these fire hats?

Never try to stop (bad cyclist) middleofnowhere getting past. He'll just ride into your back wheel.

I saw you enter the ASL from the right, my vigilante justice was as swift and merciless as it was deserved.

I was only following the advice of cycle trainers. Feel like I've been let down and will never trust them again.

In ye olde times, cars had 'trafficators';

Perhaps vans and HGVs should have a similar system fitted at the rear, but with a flag that unfurls with the indicators, saying "Don't do it".

And ^ what's wrong with entering an ASL from the right?

kill them with fire hats!

Fire hats?

And ^ what's wrong with entering an ASL from the right?

Technically illegal as you're crossing a solid white line when the lights are red. Yeah, you are a bike but the rules still apply. They're basically telling everyone to ride like cunts in the gutter.

Huh. Is it legal to go around the solid white line by nipping over onto the wrong side of the road ?

No. You'd still have to cross the solid white line for entering the 'box' from the side.

As I've often said, I think the principle of, and execution behind, advanced stop lines are completely misconceived.

Bicycles are exempt from stopping at first line.

Bicycles are exempt from stopping at first line.

[citation needed]

Bicycles are exempt from stopping at first line.

Strictly speaking no, they are supposed to filter in over the broken line on the left hand side of the box.

As I've often said, I think the principle of, and execution behind, advanced stop lines are completely misconceived.

That about covers it.

No. You'd still have to cross the solid white line for entering the 'box' from the side.

What about this one ?

https://maps.google.com/?ll=51.469515,-0.210156&spn=0.031144,0.056477&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.4693,-0.210257&panoid=yk7IYF59jtQU9okUuZmyZw&cbp=12,163.55,,0,8.97

109: Areas of white diagonal stripes or chevrons painted on the road. These are to separate traffic lanes or to protect traffic turning right.

If the area is bordered by a broken white line, you should not enter the area unless it is necessary and you can see that it is safe to do so.
If the area is marked with diagonal stripes and bordered by solid white lines, you should not enter it except in an emergency.
If the area is marked with chevrons and bordered by solid white lines you MUST NOT enter it except in an emergency.

Not sure who gets to define 'necessary'.

^^Bike lane feeds into it. That is the "legal" way to enter the box.

^not sure that applies to ASLs. Don't make me come round and rear-end you again.

A secondary pleasure of this relaxed commuting style is drafting the first few cars through the junction and overtaking the gutter riders and wobble-merchants with impunity.

This. So. Much.

There are few things more satisfying cycling in London traffic than preventing people riding down the gap between a vehicle and the kerb. The more ridiculous angle you have to put your bike at to stop them, the better.

The best ones are where you get an audible 'tut' from behind, or even a request to let them past. Which is stubbornly refused, obviously.

I used to do that but was amazed at the determination of other cyclists to squeeze into the smallest of gaps between me and the kerb, so I just wait in line and watch them.

Besides given my diminutive size, it wouldn't take much for one of them to 'gently' knock me over whilst passing.

About an hour ago an older gent on a bike came out of the UCL campus gate near the top of Gower Street without giving way or looking at the road at all, I had to do a fairly big swerve into the next lane to avoid him. It's a busy road at the best of times.

On another note I swear today I encountered possibly the highest number of idiots on the road I've ever seen, whether on bikes, foot, taxis (well, mostly the latter...)

People, seriously, get some fucking lights. Last night, pretty much EVERYONE did not have -a- light, let alone front and back.
Then I see some bloke on a Brompton with SUNGLASSES ON, at 7:30PM!!!

^ Theo rides a Brompton now ... ?

People, seriously, get some fucking lights. Last night, pretty much EVERYONE did not have -a- light, let alone front and back.
Then I see some bloke on a Brompton with SUNGLASSES ON, at 7:30PM!!!

Ezra Furman and the Harpoons "Take Off Your Sunglasses" - YouTube

btchplz, do u even corey?

Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night - YouTube