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Doing a 121 with a secondary school student near Old St. The trainee was 14 and rides from Angel daily. As we got to Old St. roundabout the lights were just going red. I'm like, "OK, check behind and stop in the center of the lane". This young gun decides he can't be bothered to wait and just blatently jumps the light. There's traffic moving on the roundabout and I'm not happy to just let him go it alone, so I hair off after him in my bright orange "Cycle Training" tabard. To all the world it must have looked like I was showing him how to jump red lights.... sigh. Disaproving looks from a Taxi etc. A stern word was had once I got him to the curb. Turns out he always jumps the lights there as he finds it safer/easier than the standing start with the rest of the traffic. I held the party line but he did have a point.