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

I love that cyclists bring up ASLs in London.
Not many of 'em know what they're for. ;)

Decoration? A touch of green in an otherwise unforgiving urban landscape?

determining the fictional age sex and location of the sweaty old man posing as a young woman in an online chatroom?

21/f/lesbos btw

More like one of these

That LTDA video makes me more determined to set up my own unbiased* study.

Pick a busy rush hour junction, rig up a cheap camera or my Raspberry Pi

Then collect it & review the results to see how many cyclists jumped the lights vs cars and work out the %'s and see which group is the worst offender.

*If the results are not in the cyclists favour, I'll just pick out all the cabs running the lights/stopping in the ASLs and use that in the final edit.

I just shouted RED at two police officers on horses who rode through a red light at the end of my road, they ignored me.

Horses can do what they want

They can't knit.

They don't want to.

They have done something we all want to though.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/29/dappy-ndubz-kicked-face-horse

Someone get a camera and film the same number of minutes worth of riders stopping at red lights. Then demand it be published by the same twats or you'll send it to the commission for unbiased reporting. I may be making this up.

Even better would be the same number of minutes of cabbies breaking the law.

(This thread isn't an attempt to be provocative. In recent days I have contemplated changing my views on RLJ.)

Given all the debate over red light jumping I am looking for experiences from those who don't jump lights.

I want to hear your experiences - better or worse / pros or cons - when not jumping? Do you feel safer/less stressed/etc?

This is not a thread to discuss the merits of either. It is to describe the cycle journey when obeying this part of the highway code.

It's nice to take a brief break and take in the surroundings without pulling over.

I like reading bus adverts while inhaling some of London's finest exhaust fumes.

Trackstanding practice, innit

I like it because I get to talk to motorists that stop too

Often next to you?

I only stop so that I can pop in a fresh mint and adjust my headphones.

It's also quite difficult to roll a cigarette whist riding, so stopping helps me out loads.

Stop for shots, usually rum.

Given all the debate over red light jumping I am looking for experiences from those who don't jump lights.

I want to hear your experiences - better or worse / pros or cons - when not jumping? Do you feel safer/less stressed/etc?

This is not a thread to discuss the merits of either. It is to describe the cycle journey when obeying this part of the highway code.

It sounds like you don't have first-hand experience of not RLJing. It would be very easy to get some.

I feel more smug.

Stopping at red lights helps stop me becoming 2D under a car/bus/lorry. I enjoy being 3D

Conformity turns me on.

Trackstanding practice, innit

Gives me a chance to catch up with Dammit and learn how to track stand/fall over