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

Depends on your perception of danger though. If you perceive that there is no danger in RLJ (please see the almighty bikeradar rlj thread to which this one will shortly be merged) then there isn't automatically a risk because there is a minor in your charge.

Not so much poor parenting as perhaps ill informed parenting.

fixed, clock is ticking.........

whats all this about Minors? I thought they all got out this morning....

Minor?

Darwin in action

Parent is stupid and takes ill informed risks. High possibility their offspring would also do likewise.

6 billion people on the planet.

Or is this person a friend simply because they are on a bike.

Should you then knock them to the ground to stop them being hit by a car?

Should you chase after them and point out their fuckwittery?

The moral complexities of riding a bike.

No, this person's not automatically a friend just because of the bike. I accept the Darwinism theory, although it seems unfair that the woman was doing her best to deny her offspring the opportunity to grow up and break the cycle (pun intended).

how is going through a red light putting anyone's life in danger?

ffs

this thread is going on ignore

Should probably just shoot them in the head for having a child on a bike.

I would have thought that would be quite hard. Wouldn't the saddle get in the way.

Darwin in action

Should you then knock them to the ground to stop them being hit by a car?

Should you chase after them and point out their fuckwittery?

The moral complexities of riding a bike.

I wouldn't take either of these courses of action if I were you DJ, she'd probably try to beat you up!

how is going through a red light putting anyone's life in danger?

Depends how late you leave it, which in her case was just as the other lights were turning green.

Won't someone please think of the children?

Oh lady, how I wish I could've caught up with you as you went through a blatant red light onto Holloway Road this morning, with your small child, blissfully unaware of your selfish and very un-parent like behaviour. Shocking.

The real question is: why couldn't you catch her? She must be a nang pedaler.

She'd already turned off, probably got to drop the kid off (so to speak)

how is going through a red light putting anyone's life in danger?

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Should you chase after them and point out their fuckwittery?

The moral complexities of riding a bike.

I tried to chase a man with an almost-undone rear wheel yesterday so I could tell him, but he was too busy doing an impression of that star wars race through the traffic, and I was on my work bike

there's only so much you can do, I suppose he will find out soon enough

Saw an old lady pedestrian get whacked at Clapham North this morning by an RLJ girl.

Proper Red lights dont apply to me moment,

Old lady seemed OK'ish.

The cyclist whilst concerned and seemingly un-injured was wholly to blame.

I wonder if she'll jump the reds again?

^ooof!

I almost t-boned a cyclist last week. He went through the red light super fast behind a stopped coach. I got soooo scared and so did he! It is annoying that at a few spots on my commute I have the green light but have to watch out for cyclists who don't stop (and don't look).

Saw an old lady pedestrian get whacked at Clapham North this morning by an RLJ girl.
I would be livid. I despair of london cyclists sometimes. A single incident is one thing but when you see half a dozen close calls in one commute ugh

each one teach one, if you see something that offends/angers you, speak to them, if they don't know any better, they won't ride any better, you're not telling a parent not to smack their child, you're telling a fellow cyclist that they need to be more aware, if they are going to jump red lights. As the life they save could be their own..

Also enough with the better than thou nature of this thread, if your not part of the solution, your part of the problem, so less bitching, more enlightening...

ps (in the interests of honesty) I'ma stay redlightjumping till the day I die..

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since the merge, this is no longer on ignore - but i am not even going to bother responding to that. (shit, i just did)

ps (in the interests of honesty) I'ma stay redlightjumping till the day I die..

or when you are out of breath :D

ps (in the interests of honesty) I'ma stay redlightjumping till the day I die..
I remember an incident in the past. You didn't come out of it too well.

Well, he didn't say that the day would be decades into the future ;)

Another reason not to RLJ;

Cycling down Clapham Common South Side going through a green (Cavendish Road), a bloke nonchalantly jumped a red light, he missed me, but hit the trailer and flew over the bar.

He's okay, look like he won't be doing that again anytime soon.

His bike was mangle, I offer him a lift on the trailer to the nearest LBS (it got a car bike rack on it), he decline.

Another reason not to RLJ;

Cycling down Clapham Common South Side going through a green (Cavendish Road), a bloke nonchalantly jumped a red light, he missed me, but hit the trailer and flew over the bar.

He's okay, look like he won't be doing that again anytime soon.

His bike was mangle, I offer him a lift on the trailer to the nearest LBS (it got a car bike rack on it), he decline.

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