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Does only having one leg on the bike preclude it from counting as a RLJ?
Simply put, no.
The only way it'd be decided properly was if if it ended up in front of a judge. They would then consider the intention and outcome of the actions rather than just the legality of the individual actions themselves.
[EDIT] Ah, it was specifically called out in Crank vs Brooks:-
"In my judgment a person who is walking across a pedestrian crossing pushing a bicycle, having started on the pavement on one side on her feet and not on the bicycle, and going across pushing the bicycle with both feet on the ground so to speak is clearly a 'foot passenger'. If for example she had been using it as a scooter by having one foot on the pedal and pushing herself along, she would not have been a 'foot passenger'. But the fact that she had the bicycle in her hand and was walking does not create any difference from a case where she is walking without a bicycle in her hand. I regard it as unarguable the finding that she was not a foot passenger "
(DPP v Selby [1994] RTR 157, 162; Crank v Brooks [1980] RTR 441, 442-3)
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Saw my new favourite thing today ...
At a cross roads with simultaneous green for pedestrians at all four points, a guy jumped the red, swerved into the pedestrian crossing and swung his right leg of the bike as if he was getting off, only to swerve back into the road and swing the leg back on.
Does only having one leg on the bike preclude it from counting as a RLJ? FFS, if you are going to jump it, man up and jump it properly - this was just half assed and smug.