Cyclists in London are insane

”A South London woman suffered horrific facial injuries after being thrown from a Lime bike that allegedly malfunctioned mid-journey, causing her to crash face-first onto the pavement.”
https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/i-left-unconscious-bloody-after-32833545
Supersimkin7 seems gleeful in describing an appalling accident.

OMG!

was convinced this girl I saw was going to squashed. She was the same age more or less as my daughter and I felt a mixture of irritation and real fear for her

Omg was this recent? I drive into that area for work from outside of London. I worry every time about accidents because it’s so chaotic. Really sad for that woman, even if she was cycling irresponsibly.

The most arsehole group of people I know happen to all be cyclists. Who are also doctors. Anaesthetists to be precise. Honestly this personal group (not all
cyclists, not all doctors) think the world owes them a fucking favour by coming to their work on bikes. Load of sanctimonious creepy dicks who look down their dripping noses at the world and they are all I must add, men. Oh and not in London either.

I was hit by a cyclist on the pavement - I was stepping out of a shop on a London high street - 2 steps out the door and I was taken out by a 9 yo on a mountain bike. This happened 1995 & I can still feel the shock of it - completely out of the blue.

I ended up wrapped in the bike somehow & the worst 2 physical injuries were from a pedal to my shin & a pedal injury to my back which cause massive bruising, cuts & swelling.

I also still have a big lump on my leg from scar tissue 30 years later.

I fucking hate cyclists.

I am also a cyclist.

I was hit by a cyclist on the pavement, broke 3 ribs, but it didn’t get reported. Cyclist nowhere to be seen once she clocked that I was at least alive, sped off shouting ‘sorry!’

I yell RED LIGHT at them.

There is an issue with Lime bikes where riders buy 30 minute passes so riders rush to their destinations. If they paid by distance, they wouldn’t rush so much. So good regulation might help. I wish the police would nick cyclists who go through red lights as they give us other cyclists a bad name, and we’re decent people mainly!

Most of them are pricks and I hope they fall off

I've cycled in London for over 30 years and completely agree that the conduct of many cyclists is dangerous. IMVHO, the food delivery e-bikes are the worst, followed by Lyme and Forest bike users. Watching these bikes go through red lights, over zebra crossings as people are using them, on the pavement and so on is part of my regular commute.

Bus, car and taxi drivers can be dangerous for cyclists, but they are generally more predictable. Kamikaze cyclists are scary for us 'obey the Highway Code' cyclists, pedestrians and vehicle drivers.

An e bike going over 50mph is a killer. It’s why the police are stopping the modified bikes as they know full well what will happen when someone gets clobbered by one

Also people don’t report being hit by cyclists - I got knocked down by one a few months ago (he was on the pavement and I just didn’t see him coming) so you can’t compare to motor vehicle accidents as in general they are being reported

That is best left for another rant thread, but it is nice to see the usual stereotypical non-thinking nonsense trotted out by those programmed how to think by the Daily Mail.

Cyclists in London can be a nuisance but it not ALL cyclists, and as for being dangerous, how many pedestrians are killed or seriously injured by cyclists anually compared to motor vehicles, and how many of those pedestrian incidents could be attributed to the gormless FOMO smart-phone-dumb-user idiots gawping at their screens with bugger all awareness of their surroundings, stepping out into the path of moving vehicles? Perhaps a bit of danger is a good thing, it might eventually reprogramme people into realising that you have a duty of care to yourself and carelessness can have consequences for the perpetrator.

If one thing kills more than the other, than surely it makes sense to concentrate efforts on the largest killer? If road deaths were a virus, we'd call it a pandemic and its not cyclists doing the killing.

I see you repeated your original clickbaity point rather than responding to my point – that just because one thing kills more than another doesn’t mean we shouldn’t worry about the second thing, as well. Presumably because you know I’m right, and you have nothing to add.

Thing is, it's not like drivers aren't also hurting and killing people, and a badly driven car, van or lorry is far more dangerous than a badly cycled bike.

So if the police have some time spare that they can use to track bike licenses and chase up dangerous cyclists , I'd much rather they spent it dealing with anti social and dangerous driving because that will have a bigger impact on road safety.

Once we get to the point that cylists hurt more people than drivers then by all means switch over.

And yet london is full of pensioners not getting killed by bikes. They need to watch out for those pesky cars though, which actually do kill pensioners

Many more people are killed in car accidents than by negligent landlords, too, so perhaps we shouldn’t worry about the landlords, either?

Many cyclists are dangerous. I have more than once had to leap aside to avoid a cyclist speeding on London’s pavements or through red lights. If that had been my elderly mother, who cannot move quickly (and also lives in London), she would likely have been seriously injured or killed.

Yes, usually because the dog hasn't been trained and completely lacks recall. I've had to jump over one in the past as I've been running along the towpath with my dog. I've had issues with them when cycling too, as well as other pedestrians. The ones glued to their mobile phones with earplugs in drive me potty. No situational awareness at all and then give you a filthy look as you try to get past.

I’ve noticed this too, it’s especially dangerous as a non-Londoner as I just assumed cyclists would stop for red lights like they do in my home town. Clearly that was a mistake!

A while ago, I floated the idea on a thread about whether adult cyclists on public roads and pavements should have to have a reg plate/licence. Really was just thinking aloud and interested to hear arguments on both sides.

I barely made it out of there alive. 😂

The deliveroo ones are on their phone the whole time and ignore all red lights and don't know the difference between a pavement and a road. The lime bikers are tourists wobbling all over the place, drunk people or road men out to steal phones. The office workers all think they are in the Tour de France and have rage issues against all other road users and pedestrians. It is a jungle out there.

The problem with cyclists is that they do not look out for themselves because they expect car drivers to look after their safety instead.

You do know that both drivers and bike riders can both take some responsibility for their own actions. It doesn't have to be a competition. Have you considered that under some circumstances cyclists are getting hurt because they don't follow the rules of the road.

The roads would be a lot safer if cyclists didn't see drivers as the enemy and vice versa. Everyone following the rules would help that relationship.

(Speaking as a cyclist, car driver and motorcycle rider)

"it went under a lorry"

How thoroughly unpleasant for you to gloat about this.