Crash at Vauxhall Bridge Road..

[gaz]

With the crossing at Grosvenor Road.

Cyclist A jumped the red light on Vauxhall Bridge Road, just as the lights for Grosvenor road went green, Cyclist B set off, saw cyclist A and stopped, cyclist A carried on going swerved to go infront of cyclist b, but decided to then swerve behind but then hit cyclist B side on.

Cyclist A was riding a old dusty bike which had the de-railers and cables removed, a v.slack chain but all the normal sprockets!

Cyclist B was riding a Colanago. V.nice it was indeed.

Least to say cyclist b wasn't v.happy and was having words with A.

 

[jonny jeez]

With the crossing at Grosvenor Road.

Cyclist A jumped the red light on Vauxhall Bridge Road, just as the lights for Grosvenor road went green, Cyclist B set off, saw cyclist A and stopped, cyclist A carried on going swerved to go infront of cyclist b, but decided to then swerve behind but then hit cyclist B side on.

Cyclist A was riding a old dusty bike which had the de-railers and cables removed, a v.slack chain but all the normal sprockets!

Cyclist B was riding a Colanago. V.nice it was indeed.

Least to say cyclist b wasn't v.happy and was having words with A.

were you A or B?

 

[ttcycle]

cyclist v cyclist- who won Gaz?!

 

[Ben774]

were you A or B?

Or cyclist C? - at a distance, rolling around on the floor in tears of laughter?

I'm sorry, I find multiple bicycle crashes are usually quite hilarious when no one gets hurt

 

[BentMikey]

Oops! I frikkin hate RLJing cyclists with a passion.

 

[joolsybools]

Fool! That is a really busy junction. I really despair at some of the behaviour I see around there, normally there are more cars than cyclists RLJing though.

 

[661-Pete]

Cyclist A was riding a old dusty bike which had the de-railers and cables removed, a v.slack chain but all the normal sprockets!

Cyclist B was riding a Colanago. V.nice it was indeed.

cyclist v cyclist- who won Gaz?!

I think you're both being enormously magnanimous in using the word 'cyclist' twice over in your posts. "POB versus cyclist", surely?

 

[BentMikey]

If they're on a bike then cyclist is entirely right. Let's not be elitist and snobby.

 

[ttcycle]

I don't like the term POB-they might have been riding stupidly and unwisely but I prefer not to alienate with terms like that.

cyclist was right- still an idiot - what a junction to play chicken on

 

[gaz]

were you A or B?

Neither, i had overtaken A on the bridge and i was waiting at the lights when he went through them.

 

[redjedi]

I hope there was no damage to the Colnago

 

[jonny jeez]

there are more cars than cyclists RLJing though.

Would love to agree but sadly, from my experience, this is not the case

 

[Greenbank]

Would love to agree but sadly, from my experience, this is not the case

Indeed, on a typical commute (and I go along Grosvenor Road past Vauxhall Bridge every day) the split is roughly as follows:-

Just as many cars and bicycles amber-gambling (i.e. passing through an amber light when it would have been safe to stop).

Just as many cars and bicycles going through red lights that have been red for a second or so (the London extension to amber-gambling).

Very very rarely (but there are some) do I see a car going through lights which have been red for more than a couple of seconds, but hundreds (yes hundreds) of cyclists that do this.

Almost no cars jumping the red light a couple of seconds or so before it changes to green, but a few cyclists (ones that have stopped for the red light but will go when the lights have gone red for the other feeds/directions).

 

[hackbike 666]

Would love to agree but sadly, from my experience, this is not the case

+1

 

[bad boy]

That is one busy junction my mum lives in chelsea and I normally cycle up to see her and hate that junction with a passion