Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Nope, I'm too lame to be capable of trackstands. Full stop with foot down.

I initially thought she was ranting to herself or had Tourettes Syndrome or something, took a while to click that it was me she was upset with. Maybe I just look super-aggressive and impatient with my shades on?

Nope, I'm too lame to be capable of trackstands. Full stop with foot down.

I initially thought she was ranting to herself or had Tourettes Syndrome or something, took a while to click that it was me she was upset with. Maybe I just look super-passive-aggressive and impatient with my shades on?

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Maybe I just look super-aggressive and impatient with my shades on?

Correct response should have been:

fair weather cnuts >>>>>>>>>

all the pollen in the air is making it really clear who all the dickheads are just leaving their bikes locked to the (not enough) racks at work for days on end. Coupled with the fair weather lot = nowhere for me to lock up. grar.

Plus, if you're turning right, wtf are you doing hogging the kerb on the left?

I welcome the new two wheeled fair-weather lot, be worse if they were in cars.. BUT why do they all have to swarm round me at lights only to wobble off at 1mph holding me and the rest of the traffic up. RAGE.

'Please don't undertake me' I literally said this to four separate people this morning.

Chap yesterday on CS7 coming up to Stockwell- undertook coming up to a red light (I was about 1m from the kerb). When I asked if he was mad and then clarified that undertaking was a bad move he responded with 'I assumed you would see me'.

Great technique, leave your safety down to others spotting you in places you really shouldn't be. Knob

I overtook a guy on a mountain bike yesterday, I wasnt challenging him to a race, it was fairly busy traffic so I was just cruising along. He clearly took it as a challenge as he then hopped up on to the pavement and weaved in and out of peds in an effort to get in front of me again.

get a grip mate.

What is the correct way to overtake someone who rides in the middle of a cycle lane?

punch in the kidneys, kick em while they're down and then shuffle round the body before continuing your journey.

that's what I've been doing, anyway.

What is the correct way to overtake someone who rides in the middle of a cycle lane?

Tell them to get the fuck out of your way, you haven't got all day...

Personally, I tend to do so on the right / outside, just because I don't know if and when they might facny closing the gap to the pavement etc

FYI - if you run into the back of another cyclist who has been stopped at the red lights (me), the correct etiquette is to apologise profusely until the person you hit can inspect the rear wheel for true and give you an earful for riding like a dick. You do not mutter something and RLJ without looking back. Someone with less restraint might ride you down and teach you some manners.

What is the correct way to overtake someone who rides in the middle of a cycle lane?

Cycle lanes aren't usually wide enough for 2 to ride side by side?

Check for traffic and overtake on the outside of the cycle lane or be able to wait for a few seconds?

I welcome the new two wheeled fair-weather lot, be worse if they were in cars.

Most of them would usually use public transport from what I understand.

Having just spent a week in Bristol, I can confirm that "Britain's top cycling city" is a nightmarish inferno of pavement-hopping, gurning nodderdom. The cycle lanes were also clearly designed by a lunatic. Good pubs, though

And meth.

Bristol

90% of cyclists are utter fucking pavement riding whoppers. Trying to teach drivers about cyclists can be a challenge, explaining road positioning was a real difficulty as practically no one rides on the road. Did not feel any sympathy for the idiots who tutted when I would not make room on the pavement to let them cycle past!

My experience in Bristol a few weeks ago.

And meth.

Meth + Cyclists = Curb hopping RLJ's?

ah, Bristol Meth

Most of them would usually use public transport from what I understand.

True, still, they're probably less deadly on a bike rather than behind the wheel of a tonne or two of metal they can't control. They're still mostly weapons on two wheels though..

ah, Bristol Meth

Boooom. Winner.

I don't get people who try so hard to overtake and then relax straight away afterwards and start coasting, as though there was this imaginary finishing line which we both cross as soon as they overtake me. I don't magically slow down just because you've overtaken me. Perhaps if it takes so much effort to come past me that you then have to slow to a crawl, maybe you should have just stayed behind me.

maybe youre a living end point of Londons most popular mobile strava segment.......

punch in the kidneys, kick em while they're down and then shuffle round the body before continuing your journey.

that's what I've been doing, anyway.

So it was you that gave me this black eye...