Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

A guy on a folding bike at the Aldwych 'scooted' his bike through a red light this morning and spent ages trying to get back on properly by which time everyone had overtaken him after the lights had gone green.

"That's still jumping lights pal!" I remarked cheerily with a laugh.

"I was walking mate" he retorted.

Last night, caught in a clusterfuck of traffic on the oval, some bellend on a screechy BSO scoots up my inside, wobbling so intensely that he knocks against my handlebars. He judders to a halt behind a bus, helmet wobbling about precariously on top of his head. We have the following exchange:

Me: Wow, that was a really sweet undertake just there!
Him: Oh. Thanks!
Me: That's not a compliment.
Him. Oh.
Me: Your helmet isn't on properly, you do realise that?
Him: Yes it is.
Me: It's not even done up.
Him: Yeah I know.
Me: You're really fucking special.
Him. Oh. Thanks!
Me: That's not a compliment.
Him: Oh.

He then spotted a 2cm gap on the inside of the bus, so wobbled off on his merry way.

RPM.

Without a shadow of a doubt.

I thought I recognised him.

Saw a fella last night with what I thought was a neck brace on. Turns out it was a pair of Beats by Dre™ headphones that he was having trouble wearing over his helmet. When I spotted him again he had perched the cans on the top of the helmet and had managed to get half of his ear covered by the oversized cup.

I suppose it is really important to get that Beats by Dre™ sound quality* on your commute.

*LOL

I saw a woman hit a pothole so hard today that her hi vis helmet bounced off her head. Such lols.

Last night, caught in a clusterfuck of traffic on the oval, some bellend on a screechy BSO scoots up my inside, wobbling so intensely that he knocks against my handlebars. He judders to a halt behind a bus, helmet wobbling about precariously on top of his head. We have the following exchange:

Me: Wow, that was a really sweet undertake just there!
Him: Oh. Thanks!
Me: That's not a compliment.
Him. Oh.
Me: Your helmet isn't on properly, you do realise that?
Him: Yes it is.
Me: It's not even done up.
Him: Yeah I know.
Me: You're really fucking special.
Him. Oh. Thanks!
Me: That's not a compliment.
Him: Oh.

He then spotted a 2cm gap on the inside of the bus, so wobbled off on his merry way.

I despair, I really do. I suppose we should congratulate him for stopping at all, as opposed to riding on the pavement.

cape town is choc full of rlj'ing, suicidal knobwads doing crazy hill stages on raleigh bso's. matched only by the apalling standard of driving. i saw a man driving a lorry with his knees whilst presumably txting on a road that consisted mostly of 45 degree turns and a 300 metre drop into the briny this afternoon. phonedriving is the national sport it would seem.

Report dangerous drivers thread >>>>>>

local popo iz jokez.

So you raise the issue on a British cycling forum?

fuck off dj.

aaah that felt good.

like a holiday in a holiday.

cape town is choc full of rlj'ing, suicidal knobwads doing crazy hill stages on raleigh bso's. matched only by the apalling standard of driving. i saw a man driving a lorry with his knees whilst presumably txting on a road that consisted mostly of 45 degree turns and a 300 metre drop into the briny this afternoon. phonedriving is the national sport it would seem.

But Chainbreaker lives over here now...

^ Love you really Iain :)

^ like a brother, obvs.

cb is from jaaawburg nest pas?

hb cb!

Still from SA though. He's our token SA man - bridging the gap between Nelson Mandela and Pistorius.

manmurderla.

So you raise the issue on a British cycling forum?

Maybe you should call his employers and tell them he's posted mildly off topic. I mean, won't someone think of the children?

riding north over waterloo bridge along the closed lane bit and a girl on a big town bike pulls right out in my path. I saw it coming so had slowed down, but when I said "woah! look!" she said "yes, I saw you".

^ like a brother, obvs.
Like that would stop him...

riding north over waterloo bridge along the closed lane bit and a girl on a big town bike pulls right out in my path. I saw it coming so had slowed down, but when I said "woah! look!" she said "yes, I saw you".

Well if you've going to ride like a cheese-eating surrender-monkey, you've got to expect people to assume you're irrelevant to their trajectory...

I *was *munching on a cheese string at the time. zut alors

http://rideukbmx.com/news/why-would-a-bmxer-steal-another-riders-bike.html

^ very bad cyclist

I *was *munching on a cheese string at the time. zut alors

Should've been Calvados Camembert. Now you gave Le Manfriend a reason to carve you up too...

;)