Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

It was probably loose from clipping a cyclist earlier in the day..

Some of those 'Wanker' stickers would be dead handy to slap on Porsche Cayenne drivers' boots when they almost kill you because they're on a phone and cutting right across a junction.

would be useful for twat bmw drivers when they floor the car to pass you only to stop at the next lights 50 mts away.

Sounds about right Kiwo. Never understood why people do this? They then have the cheek to tuck in to the curb so you can get around them either, really winds me up.

Possibly similar reason to why plenty of cyclists (sorry, people on bikes) insist on being at the front of every queue: Because they can.

Because they're cunts.

Harsh but fair

^ that, probably my biggest pet hate of being on the roads (in a car, on a mbike or riding a bike) is people that are obsessed with being infront of you, like by YOU being infront of THEM is a personal challenge to their status. Series's of roundabouts are the worst in a car, you always get some eager little git in a 1.0l corsa B flying round you to take the next exit, when you can actually get their much faster and using less fuel by just being more intelligent.
On the bike as well, motorists HAVE to get past you before the next junction, over wise the world will end and their status will lye in ruins shattered on the floor if a mere cyclist has beaten them to that last junction........ then cut in and get stopped by the lights, stopping you/ forcing you into some parked car/ wheelie bin.

If they don't pass you, their dick shrinks.

Trufax.

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^ that, probably my biggest pet hate of being on the roads (in a car, on a mbike or riding a bike) is people that are obsessed with being infront of you, like by YOU being infront of THEM is a personal challenge to their status.

Think about of what encourage them to go on the front of the traffic light in the first place;

It bugs me when motorcycles cruise up the left side then park themselves just in front of the left corner of the front car, blocking everyone behind from moving into the cycle zone. I get that they hate cyclists sitting in front of them but that positioning gives everyone little choice. If they'd move over to the right everyone would be happy - cyclists get to use the zone on the left, motorcycles get their own space with no one blocking their acceleration. /peeve

This evening a bloke going in the opposite direction to me ran a red light, ironically wearing a hi viz vest.

I yelled out 'Dick!' to him but 10m further on I realised what I really wanted to say and which I will be using in future, "Shame on you". I think it is perhaps more humiliating than any vulgar abuse, it takes me back to my granny, it's the worst possible insult she could muster, very humbling and would provoke intense feelings of guilt rather than anger in the person it is directed towards.

I love watching nodder twats whose ego is so confronted by being overtaken by a woman. Cycling with MissMouse this is a regular affair. I just sit back and watch them try to unleash the hammer once she has gone past. It is a source of utter hilarity watching them attempt to overtake her. She is brilliant at just keeping on upping the pace and just grinding them down. You can hear their breathing become heavier, the poorly time gear shifts as they "must not let a girl beat them" and the terrible flappy pedalling technique.

I have seen two of them nearly kill themselves in the past couple of weeks. MissMouse, like me, tends to obey traffic lights. You can see their sense of relaxed victory as they plough through the lights without thought (apart from "i cant be beaten by a girl"), only to find that the lights are red for a reason and there are these funny steel boxes now hurtling at them.

As they are just racing girls, the cat 5 commuters then slow down having done their RLJ. So MissMouse then tucks in behind me and as we catch up with the inept masher, she then slingshots back out to overtake them and repeat the whole scenario again.

I'm a nodder twat whose ego is so confronted by being overtaken by a woman. Cycling with MissMouse this is a regular affair. I try to unleash the hammer once she has gone past. It is a source of utter hilarity for her, watching me attempt to overtake her. She is brilliant at just keeping on upping the pace and just grinding me down. I can hear my breathing become heavier, the poorly time gear shifts as I "must not let a girl beat me" and the terrible flappy pedalling technique.

Yeah.

I encountered some commuter tards this morning, the ridiculous egotistical performances would be hilarious if they weren't so tragic and inconvenient to other users.

I want a bag patch/sticker that says:

"I'm Just riding to work
Want to race?
Then come to:
http://www.hernehillvelodrome.com"

^ +1

Some prize weapon on a hybrid this morning unsuccessfully tried to fit his massively wide bars into a small gap and knocked the right-wing mirror of a car waiting at the lights. While he did turn and shrug an apology he then continued on his way.

I'm sure the driver was forming the opinion that all cyclists were cunts when I rode up, smiled and reset her wing mirror back to its original position. The beaming smile on her face and mouthed "thank you" to me were reward enough. It's good when you can tip the karmic balance back in our favour.

repped. i hope you also mouthed "i don't know that clown"

I love watching nodder twats whose ego is so confronted by being overtaken by a woman. Cycling with MissMouse this is a regular affair. I just sit back and watch them try to unleash the hammer once she has gone past. It is a source of utter hilarity watching them attempt to overtake her. She is brilliant at just keeping on upping the pace and just grinding them down. You can hear their breathing become heavier, the poorly time gear shifts as they "must not let a girl beat them" and the terrible flappy pedalling technique.

I have seen two of them nearly kill themselves in the past couple of weeks. MissMouse, like me, tends to obey traffic lights. You can see their sense of relaxed victory as they plough through the lights without thought (apart from "i cant be beaten by a girl"), only to find that the lights are red for a reason and there are these funny steel boxes now hurtling at them.

As they are just racing girls, the cat 5 commuters then slow down having done their RLJ. So MissMouse then tucks in behind me and as we catch up with the inept masher, she then slingshots back out to overtake them and repeat the whole scenario again.

haha!...absolutely, couldnt agree more..pathetic isnt it?...is your CAT 5 male ego so fragile it cant stand a woman being in front?...truly truly sad...see it all the time....woman on a carbon road bike often flys past me on the euston rd of a morning...its fun watching the sweaty nodders attempt to hold her wheel....FAIL!

prob not the place to ask this but are mopeds etc allowed to ride in the blue cycle "super" highways? I only ask as they added one to my commute and I regularly see them flyign along undertaking cars and cutting up cyclists. Are the unbroken white lines just advisory?

are mopeds allowed to ride in the blue

Apparently so:

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On the bike as well, motorists HAVE to get past you before the next junction, over wise the world will end and their status will lye in ruins shattered on the floor if a mere cyclist has beaten them to that last junction........ then cut in and get stopped by the lights, stopping you/ forcing you into some parked car/ wheelie bin.

This is the absolute worst. Happens every single time I go out on the bike in Glasgow. Reported a taxi driver to the police for it last thursday.

Then last night had a car of four boys hammering the horn to get me to pull in so they could pass me to get to the queue of traffic waiting at a red light, slamming on the brakes as soon as they'd passed me, and probably having had to accelerate to 40ish to get around me anyway, given the small distance between me and the red light queue.

^^ I should have realised :)

some prize twat council rat on a possibly nicked hybrid undertaking me at the lights on the way home from souths last night - i yelled a well deserved 'excuse me, what the fuck are you doing?' to which he replied 'fuck off you fucking aussie cunt' to which i replied 'i'm south african mate' quoth he 'well that's worse'. i did a LOL. fair enough really.

council rat repped.

I want a bag patch/sticker that says:

"I'm Just riding to work
Want to race?
Then come to:
http://www.hernehillvelodrome.com"

That is absolutely brilliant. I would have one on my bag and I would pay monies to help fund those.