Manners please

Great thread . . .

The advent of the fixed hipster has definitely resulted in a rash of new riders who have no clue as to road awareness, and put themselves and others at risk. Quite often i am more scared of what the cunt on the bike next to me is going to do, as past exeriance teaches me that no road user is more random in his/her actions than the newb bicyclist.

I drive a car a fair bit round London, and use a scooter for most of my trips round town. As a car driver, i am always aware of other road users, but the problem these days is that i have 2 or 3 motorbikes/scooters filtering down the outside, and 2 or 3 cyclists having their own TDF down the inside - now this leaves the car drive no room for manouver in case of an emergency, if a ped were to step out there is going to be a lot of blood on the road.

Up on Clerkenwell road about 2 months ago on my motorbike, and i was pretty shocked at the chaos, about 10 cyclists nd ten motorbikes and each set of lights. The amount of cyclists (unfortuntelymostly Hipsters on fixed/ss) who pulled out from the inside to the outdside in front of a car without even looking to see if a motorbike was filtering down the lane was ridiculous, i am amazed that their isnt a death their every day.

I always think that as a cyclist you should stick to the inside, and as a motorbiker to the outside - the number of near misses from idiots filtering by the curb on scooters is also on the massive rise. I dont think alot of cyclist realise how dangerous it is to filter down the middle when you have a pack of motobikes doing the same.

I tend to ride about 2 ft off of the curb, for reasons mentioned befoe in this thread, but a lot of motorists to inteperate this as antagonistic riding, which often leads to road rage etc.

Seems to me like we need to totally re-adress road safety education, as the way our roads has changed so radicaly i the last decade, particularily since the CC came in . .