Why do cyclists have a bad name.......

[PK99]

...... maybe because of twots like the guy in Wimbledon the other day.


Crossroad in near the station has recently been changed to a 4-way stop with diagonal pedestrian crossing cycle ( i hope that makes sense....)

I'm in my car at the head of the line of traffic stopped heading north.

Dickhead-on-a bike, passes on my left,
turns across crossing pedestrians onto the pavement at the crossing point,
traverses the pavement mingling with pedestrians and crosses the road via the pedestrian crossing - in the process weaving around folks going the same way as him and obstructing folks coming toward him,
reaches pavement on other side and travels along for 10/20m weaving through pedestrians before hopping back on the road for 10/20m
then turning sharp right across the traffic flow (me as the lights have now changed!)
through the traffic starting to move in the opposite direction and hopping onto the opposite pavement and cycling along.

Oh for a dashboard camera, it would have been a dead cert for Silly Cyclist of the Year

 

[ianrauk]

there's plenty of them about unfortunately.

 

[Fiona N]

I wouldn't mind so much if they were actually getting somewhere in a hurry but most of the the guys (invariably, I'm afraid) who nip onto the pavement, causing pedestrians to dodge out of their way, across the traffic light controlled crossing by the side road then back onto the main road on the other side of the junction while I'm waiting at the lights are so fat and unfit that I (no racing snake, middl-aged female, usually with a 10kg rucksac of shopping or towing a trailer of same) pass them on the slight incline about 200 m further up the road. If they put as much effort into getting fit and a bit faster, they wouldn't have to try make up time by squashing innocent pedestrians on the pavements.

 

[Globalti]

These are not cyclists, they are idiots riding bikes.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

These are not cyclists, they are idiots riding bikes.

Not true , ive ridden with cyclists who have been out there for years who had a disgraceful attitude to others on the road, to the point i have turned round and gone my own way to get away from the clowns.

 

[apollo179]

These are idiotic cyclists.

FTFY