RLJ (Red Light Jumping). (The definitive bikeradar thread)

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William.
Reason to jump red lights:
1. No-one around to see
2. Too Drunk
3. A bit Tired
4. Slightly Late
5. Fixie Skidda Alleycat points
6. For the Lulz
7. Hill Start
8. Being a badass
9. Out of embarrassment
10. You're just about to get a Strava KOM
11. Trying to copy the person trackstanding and failing badly
12. Colourblind
13. Need a poo
14. Cannot trackstand
15. Looks like a bad crowd in the ASL
16. Tax Reasons
17. Ped pushed crossing button when there wasn't a cyclist/vehicle
  within sight
18. You are turning left (because you can do this in the US of freakin'
  A so it must be OK)
19. You have a flamethrower strapped to your bike
  which is legal in the US and you can torch anything that gets in
  your way
20. Everyone else is doing it
21. You really need that poo
22. You did a poo
23. The light isn't particularly tall, about waist height, and you
  fancy the athletic challenge.
24. Touching cloth.
25. Because existential crisis
26. need to get a ticket
27. You're feeling a bit frisky and the light is red hawt.
28. Dodgy knee
29. Riding braeklzz, can't stop don't want to
30. Because you're just more important than those light-stoppers.
31. Trying to even things up since London's infrastructure mainly
  serves cars.
32. anarchist
33. You need to get to your destination so that you can FIX THE FICKING
  LIST.
34. Too busy fixing lists to look for red lights
35. It's 2am, I triple checked, there's fuck all coming and I don't
  have a number plate
36. Your mum.
37. Solipsism
38. You stopped in front of everyone waiting in the ASL and suddenly
  feel really self conscious.
39. Simon says.
40. Daryll from down the road and a bunch of other kids did it first.
41. It's sex night
42. Has bar bag and map holder setup
43. Everything is inherently worthless
44. You finally figured out how to fix the list.
45. Cunt shift.

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±ln(x) in reply to @William.
Reason to jump red lights:
1. No-one around to see
2. Too Drunk
3. A bit Tired
4. Slightly Late
5. Fixie Skidda Alleycat points
6. For the Lulz
7. Hill Start
8. Being a badass
9. Out of embarrassment
10. You're just about to get a Strava KOM
11. Trying to copy the person trackstanding and failing badly
12. Colourblind
13. Need a poo
14. Cannot trackstand
15. Looks like a bad crowd in the ASL
16. Tax Reasons
17. Ped pushed crossing button when there wasn't a cyclist/vehicle
  within sight
18. You are turning left (because you can do this in the US of freakin'
  A so it must be OK)
19. You have a flamethrower strapped to your bike which is legal in the
  US and you can torch anything that gets in your way
20. Everyone else is doing it
21. You really need that poo
22. You did a poo
23. The light isn't particularly tall, about waist height, and you
  fancy the athletic challenge.
24. Touching cloth.
25. Because existential crisis
26. need to get a ticket
27. You're feeling a bit frisky and the light is red hawt.
28. Dodgy knee
29. Riding braeklzz, can't stop don't want to
30. Because you're just more important than those light-stoppers.
31. Trying to even things up since London's infrastructure mainly
  serves cars.
32. anarchist
33. You need to get to your destination so that you can FIX THE FICKING
  LIST.
34. Too busy fixing lists to look for red lights
35. It's 2am, I triple checked, there's fuck all coming and I don't
  have a number plate
36. Your mum.
37. Solipsism
38. You stopped in front of everyone waiting in the ASL and suddenly
  feel really self conscious.
39. Simon says.
40. Daryll from down the road and a bunch of other kids did it first.
41. It's sex night
42. Has bar bag and map holder setup
43. Everything is inherently worthless
44. You finally figured out how to fix the list.
45. Cunt shift.
46. Everyone should have slowed to 10mph when going through the opposing green lights.

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