I rock up here every so often. Read this thread. Feel really really really guilty for being a 'bad' cyclist.Then I try my very best to stop at every light, every crossing in fact stop for every other road user where-ever possible. I can kinda do it. I even feel quite good about myself. But then inevitably I am in a hurry to get some where and I go back to my old courier ways of riding fast and not really stopping very much at all if I can help it. I find it much more fun to ride this way, more fluid, but its not right is it. I really must try harder. Does Buffalo Bill stop at every traffic light? I bet he does.
Not stopping doesn't make you 'bad'. It's just not helpful. It's much more damaging when you rlj in front of peds with the right of way. Less so if you pass behind them. Less so in front of a queue of about 10 drivers waiting.
Sounds like we need a top trumps or league table of badness.
Not stopping doesn't make you 'bad'. It's just not helpful. It's much more damaging when you rlj in front of peds with the right of way. Less so if you pass behind them. Less so in front of a queue of about 10 drivers waiting.
Sounds like we need a top trumps or league table of badness.