Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Silly cyclist on wrong side of road. Good it was me and not a taxi driver / van man going round that bend...

Taleban Cyclists Off The Roads. At a crossing in High Holborn.

http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=984&pictureid=17079

I'd be upset, too, if I really wanted to tell a tale and these talebanners came along.

I love that they have highlighted 'accidents caused'. Presumably there are a few of these stickers out there.

Taleban Cyclists Off The Roads. At a crossing in High Holborn.

http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=984&pictureid=17079

Quoting from sticker: "obstreperous". It seems these days people with a phobia of certain groups can at least correctly spell big words.

I've no idea what it means :) :) :)

If somebody that thick spelled obstreperous correctly, it means spellcheck.

Taleban Cyclists Off The Roads. At a crossing in High Holborn.

http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=984&pictureid=17079

How can I join?

Weaving all over the road in a massively exaggerated manner.
Anybody here seen it? Do it themselves? WTF is it all about and is it the new look for Spring 2014?
I don't like it

I'm only doing it on Clapham Road, whilst it's blocked off this week.

Sorry.

Heh, so do I.

I like looking at all the red flashing lights when all the cyclist go through Oval instead of Brixton road where motorised traffic was directed to.

What are peoples opinions on automatically triggered traffic lights? I don't know how common they are, or what the legal requirements for them are, but at least a few traffic lights near me appear to be automatically triggered (either by weight or by some kind of motion sensor) but there have been several instances where it appears that I've been stood at a various sets of lights for an eternity and that they only change when a car pulls up behind me.

In normal circumstances I never RLJ and just stand around waiting but there is at least one light that I've taken to running regularly now and I feel a bit self conscious about it.

I have trouble with auto-doors, auto-sensor washroom taps and hand dryers.
I feel a bit self conscious I'm going invisible, but no one can see it.

If the lights refuse to recognise me I see no reason I should recognise them.

What are peoples opinions on automatically triggered traffic lights? I don't know how common they are, or what the legal requirements for them are, but at least a few traffic lights near me appear to be automatically triggered (either by weight or by some kind of motion sensor) but there have been several instances where it appears that I've been stood at a various sets of lights for an eternity and that they only change when a car pulls up behind me.

In normal circumstances I never RLJ and just stand around waiting but there is at least one light that I've taken to running regularly now and I feel a bit self conscious about it.

They sometimes don't work. It is rather annoying. I was getting this at Rectory Road/Brooke Road, N16 quite a lot, but it seems to have been fixed. Report it when you notice it:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/reportastreetfault/934.aspx

Not in London but I'll see if Oxford and the rural surrounds have an equivalent page.

For the ones that I think are weight restricted I usually try a few bunny hops before I get to the lights. At 70kgs on a road bike I'm not sure it helps :-)

Last week a road worker waved me through some temporary red lights after I'd waited for about 5 minutes. Apparently they were set up so the default was green for northbound traffic unless they detected a car heading south. Annoying as I had been in the middle of a 20minute threshold effort.

Not in London but I'll see if Oxford and the rural surrounds have an equivalent page.

They do:

http://fixmystreet.oxfordshire.gov.uk/

They are either induction loop ( so they detect a metal object passing over it) or they sense heat (infra red)
Cyclists sometimes don't trigger them because the sensors are not set to detect that level of signal. It is easy to set them to detect a car, but the tuning of them is harder at smaller signal inputs.
Report them, but using fillthathole, or fixmystreet, don't use the local authority sites because they don't report their performance at fixing things as both the independent ones do.

Bookmarked, thank you!

Presumably the official cycle training line would be to dismount and to negotiate the lights as a pedestrian before remounting, as opposed to charging straight through?

Bookmarked, thank you!

Presumably the official cycle training line would be to dismount and to negotiate the lights as a pedestrian before remounting, as opposed to charging straight through?

Unusually they recommend a one-handed wheelie, giving the relevant lights the finger.

The ones at the end of my road don't recognise me. I ride through.

I guess correct form would be to dismount and push your bike through as peds can't RLJ (crown vs. whatsit).

^ this is the correct answer.

I had a chat with some PoPo on Embankent RLJ duty about this (hiding under Waterloo Bridge) about this when the lights at the bottom of Savoy St were ignoring cyclists. He was basically fining every bicycle that came round the corner, it was disgusting.

Me, Stockwell this morning. Was focused so much on nodding to the police patrol I didn't notice my rear wheel taking out the traffic cone they had up. Retard.

I concur, been commuting regularly since the early 90's and there was always an element of aggression from all on the road. The one factor I think has compounded the situation is the increased volume of cars, peds,trucks, bikes, etc on the road nowadays.

So you're agreeing with me...

It took you four weeks to respond??

Possibly not a bad cyclist at all, but a baffling one this morning heading over Waterloo Bridge: pedalling a Viking-branded road bike in bumblebee colours, too small for its rider, and there was something odd about the front end. It looked high. Then I noticed that the forks were back to front. I wonder what the steering felt like.