Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

I would hate to pander to the wrong bigotry.

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There's too much pander hate on this forum already.

The black and white bastards.

Juggalos go home

Coming over here and not having children...

Indeed. So reinforcing their easily-reinforced bigoted stereotypes doesn't help solve the problem, pending the realisation of greenhell's everyone-is-judged-on-their-own-merits-at-all-times utopian fantasy.

And if one person here had been arguing "Let's all ride like cunts", you'd have a relevant point. Maybe you should hang around for someone to turn up and argue that, then you can assure yourself that it really was the point of the discussion all along.

pending the realisation of greenhell's everyone-is-judged-on-their-own-merits-at-all-times utopian fantasy.

at no point have i suggested this. i have however suggested that if you choose to ride like a cunt, i reserve the right to take exception to anyone else who judges me because of it.

Mr uber competitive single speed in a dark red rapha top this evening - yes, you're faster than me. Well done. But Clerkenwell road is not actually the Champs Elysee and passing me so close you almost take my front wheel out when you cut sharply in front of me does not make you Mark Cavendish. It just makes you look like a bit of a tit.

No, he nearly made contact with my front wheel because he underestimated how fast I was going, while squeezing between me and a car that was overtaking. Bad manoeuvre.

Also, way to bang on your own personal drum there.

Luckily it never gets boring.

Oh, wait..

expensive looking scott single speed conversion with all the gear and no idea doing a colossally dick under/overtake move between me, another cyclist and a bus passing on my outside on TCR this morning. You ride like the fucking knuckledragger your conversational skills suggest. You also do little to assuage the suspicion that white south african males are the same entitled, arrogant, preening cockends wherever they might roam.

white south african males are the same entitled, arrogant, preening cockends wherever they might roam.

being an ignorant, judgemental bigoted fuck isn't acceptable.

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Promuter in Altura hi vis vest overtaking me with cm to spare before slamming on the brakes as the traffic in front was turning left across the bus lane down the side street we were coming to. I asked, "U MAD BRO?". The answer is yes. Yes you are mad for being a dick.

Seconds later on the way over the canal. The hybrid rider that came from the canal towpath and just "merged" into the southbound traffic on the A10. The sound of my rear tyre skidding across the tarmac as I lock up to avoid a collision as you nonchalantly pulled out was the reason I told you. "Thanks for pulling out in front of me". I didn't feel the need to answer your repeated and breathless cries of "Ya whaaaaa, ya whaaaaat?" as it would have fallen on deaf ears as you were obviously struggling to get oxygen flowing around your brain this morning.

< white south african male.

Ahhhh I get you now Greenhell.

< white south african male.

almost makes it acceptable then ;)

< white south african male.

inverse racism!

no, it's actual racism. but i get a pass. just ask those closest to me.

Me on the way home last night. Front light flew off and smashed to pieces on the road. Cycling home with no lights is bad cycling. Must keep a spare in future

cateye?

Yes it was actually. A bit of a cheap one to be honest. Just purchased myself a Lezyne on the way in. Far superior, should probably have got one at the beginning of winter, not at the end

terrible lights. the south lambeth road is littered with their shattered corpses.

Promuter in Altura hi vis vest overtaking me with cm to spare before slamming on the brakes as the traffic in front was turning left across the bus lane down the side street we were coming to. I asked, "U MAD BRO?". The answer is yes. Yes you are mad for being a dick.

Seconds later on the way over the canal. The hybrid rider that came from the canal towpath and just "merged" into the southbound traffic on the A10. The sound of my rear tyre skidding across the tarmac as I lock up to avoid a collision as you nonchalantly pulled out was the reason I told you. "Thanks for pulling out in front of me". I didn't feel the need to answer your repeated and breathless cries of "Ya whaaaaa, ya whaaaaat?" as it would have fallen on deaf ears as you were obviously struggling to get oxygen flowing around your brain this morning.

"Great rant, would read again!" *****

A certain Spitting Image song comes to mind...

;)

Waterloo Bridge 08.45 this morning; Minty green Brooklyn Gangsta, generic hipster, black Levi's commuter jeans, black messenger backpack. You RLJ twice (badly) so you can pull out into my right of way without looking and then give me shit for it. Seriously?? Grow up mate.

"Are you really that desperate to get to the front you twat?" Is the question I asked this morning of the cunt who decided he'd force himself between me and the other cyclists to position himself handily in front of the ASL line on the pedestrian crossing.

I didn't realis how much I would ruin his day when I asked the question, but he reacted like I'd shaved all the hair off of his prize winning poodle and bitten one of his hind legs off too.

"Did you call me a twat? Did you? (you prick)". By the time you'd finished spitting your words out of your lame retort all the other cyclists and I had passed you as the light changed green.

Sorry to ruin your day, you cunt.