however, try cycling around London
Cyclists are the most dangerous on the road apart from commercial vehicles and massive fuck off lorries.

Fixie gears? Check
No working brakes? Check
No helmet? Check
Bike not serviced in last 10 years? Check
Massive fuck off Dre Dre headphones & Skillrex mix so I can't hear what's going on? Check
Two or three pints of beers consumed in the pub after work? check
( rofl harris, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 17:32, 1 reply)

Whizz through red lights?
Dodge through the pedestrians on the zebra crossing?
Massive sense of entitlement?
Wrong way down one-way streets?
Indiscriminately switch between pavement and road?
Blame "bad drivers" for any transgressions you might commit?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 17:36, closed)

Think I rowed about this on here before
Of your list of transgressions the one I do regularly is going through a red light - but only in the circumstance where I get to the front at a junction to find a massive lorry in the cycle box, and a solid metal railing to my left. Rather than risk getting my innards spread across the railings I'll jump the light.
( rofl harris, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 17:40, closed)

Oh yeah, I forgot
Blame "lorries" for any transgressions you might commit?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 17:41, closed)

hahah
Nah, it's just that it's not just cyclists who forget the rules of the road - I've come to assume that not indicating has absolutely no reflection on whether a vehicle is actually going to turn (and conversely, indicating has no bearing on whether a vehicle will turn, or even if they do, in the direction that they're indicating in), and there's no guarantee that I've been seen...

It all comes down to "Do I want to die today?"
( rofl harris, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 17:44, closed)

As a weekend cyclist I do sympathise, really I do
but as a London pedestrian I've learned to loathe cyclists
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 17:50, closed)

Must be why as a London cyclist
I loathe all other cyclists
( rofl harris, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 17:51, closed)

It's the only sensible option, I think

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 17:53, closed)

Just because your bike does not have an engine...
... that does not mean you're exempt from the rules of the road. If you don't want to wait at the red light, then you must dismount the bike and walk it up onto the pavement past the light.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 1:26, closed)

You must be fucking great company at parties.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 8:03, closed)

I agree.
Either dismount and walk or stay behind the front vehicle so that it doesn't squash you when it turns. Just because you can fit past on the left doesn't mean you always have to or always should.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 11:49, closed)

Or have accept that you're no more important than anyone else, have some fucking patience and obey the rules of the road.
I've never met a cyclist who thinks any of the above apply to them.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 16:01, closed)

Got to admit...
I *love* clotheslining pavement cyclists, and the ones who run through pedestrian crossings on the red light.
(gordonjcp, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 0:01, closed)

Yup, me too.
Had more abuse on this site from admitting it than I have from the cyclists that have collided with me.

I know drivers are bad, cyclists are bad and even pedestrians jump out into the road without looking, and we've all seen examples of such. The key point is that there are far more pedestrians or cars than cyclists, but by far the higher percentage of transgressions appear to be by our two wheeled friends.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 13:34, closed)