Kamikaze Cyclists!

A question about : Kamikaze Cyclists!

Speaking as a coach driver who was picking up from St Pancras International Station last night in London, I am amazed that we don't hear of more cyclists being killed after the astonishing way I witnessed some of them riding last night. They were dangerously weaving in and out of the traffic (most with NO lights on at all) through very narrow gaps. They were undertaking buses (when the drivers would NOT be able to see them via their mirrors. They were riding on and off pavements to avoid red traffic lights and some simply ignored red traffic lights all together.

No wonder cyclists have such a bad reputation which give responsible cyclists a bad name. I must admit, is saw very few of the latter during my journey along Euston Road.

Best answers:

• Yawn.......
• Mcnob = Militant cyclist no brakes
• The reason i don't go out on my bike a lot is 'cos of all the kamikaze motorists. And i say that as a car driver. The roads would be a lot safer if everyone just stayed at home.
  As with everything in life, there are good and bad.
• I was waiting on my bike to turn right at a junction recently. There was a bus coming but it was INCREDIBLY slow. I noticed the bus was full of passengers and the driver was texting as he went along. I couldn't believe that a bus driver would be doing that. Wouldn't a passenger report him? Is that safe behaviour from a fellow PSV driver then TILT?
• My biggest gripe on the road is ignorant coach drivers who believe they own the road. They don't give enough space when overtaking, they forget how long their tail is, and, more than anything else, one of them mowed down and killed a couple of cyclist acquaintances of mine because he couldn't see out of his windscreen.
  Most coach drivers are the absolute pits! They give the occasional good coach driver an extremely bad name!!
• Oh goody,
  Not had one of these for a while.
• Motorists and cyclists are all people. Some people are responsible, some are less so, some people like more risk, some like less. Stirring up a feud between different groups of road users doesn't achieve anything other than increase the risk for everyone. Motorists are better protected against injury than cyclists, so they have generally less incentive to be careful.
  If motorists are so renowned for obeying the law, it makes you wonder why they get so irate about speed cameras and traffic wardens.
• Not really making any comparisons at all. Simply making an observation that a lot of people I witnessed yesterday evening seemed to be quite content in putting themselves into a potentially life threatening situation by A) riding a bicycle along a extremely busy street in central London without any lights. B) weaving in and out of the stop-starting traffic (a lot of it made up of buses etc) and riding through red lights at very busy road junctions.
  I find it hard to compare this reckless behaviour with any other road user to be honest. Yes, there are indeed bad motorists BUT unless someone is being chased by the police, I doubt that as many motorists drive in the same way as the cyclists I saw last night. And I am sorry to say that they out numbered the "responsible" cyclists that I saw by some margin.
  Maybe the police should be actively tackling the problem by enforcing the law with these idiots instead of attending the collisions that sometimes occur and scraping the cyclist off the road.
• I do love these threads with all the concern for the poor little cyclists who are inevitably going to kill themselves.
  So good to see folk care so much about them.
  Just a shame the threads can't be a bit more like Christmas and only come round once a year rather than every month or so