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

yeah. bladdy national service is what they need. and bring back the birch.

So if I got up to some traffic lights, jumped of the bike and ran across the road in between traffic. The plod couldn't do anything? Still slower than riding through but faster than waiting.

Yes, crank vs brooks is the court case.

Mr Bean did it in a sketch.

So if I got up to some traffic lights, jumped of the bike and ran across the road in between traffic. The plod couldn't do anything? Still slower than riding through but faster than waiting.

Faster than waiting! What's the point??

Faster than waiting! What's the point??

Faster than waiting!

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Edit. FFUU

Faster than waiting! What's the point??

for e.g. on my route into town the roadworks on a cross roads have got 4-way traffic control. i.e. due to closed lanes the 4 directions take it in turns, so if it just goes red on you, you would save minutes (without exaggeration) by walking through te junction

What do you do with the saved minutes?

phones rspcm

/reports

I saw a guy try to be cool and do the whole dismount/remount thing at the tooley st/tower bridge junction heading in one morning.

the lights were red so everyone was stopped. this guy wobbles through the pack up to the front, hops off, starts walking across the junction and gets half way when the lights change and the cyclists behind him to a man swarm around him as he desperately tries to remount in the middle of the road with people trying to get out of the way of the cars opposite turning right and this idiot.

just don't do it, you will look like a total plonker. either mtfu and jump the light properly risking all that comes with that decision or wait like a normal person at the lights.

Stopping at lights is great. Good chance to take it all in. I like to be on familiar terms with the city in which I live. If I needed to save minutes (hours), I'd stop visiting this website so often.

But if you desperately want to scurry around like ants, whatever.

they only weigh 3 milligrams though. I can lift way more than 60 milligrams. like probably double that much.

ants are pussies.

if it was 60 millibands I'd be impressed.

What do you do with the saved minutes?

something other than trackstand practice

Stopping at lights is great. Good chance to take it all in. I like to be on familiar terms with the city in which I live. If I needed to save minutes (hours), I'd stop visiting this website so often.

But if you desperately want to scurry around like ants, whatever.

if you like stopping so much why don't you just stop every 100 yards and stand on the pavement for a while?

"desperately want to scurry around like ants"...what is it with this thread turning everyone into a weirdo?

If you want to do it, and it saves time, and it's legal. Go right ahead.

Don't let the bastards grind you down

If you want to do it, and it saves time, and it's legal. Go right ahead.

Don't let the bastards grind you down

it's exactly that kind of loose talk that keeps morris dancers in business.

What do you do with the saved minutes?

I spend them sitting quietly and thinking about you VV.

if you like stopping so much why don't you just stop every 100 yards and stand on the pavement for a while?

"desperately want to scurry around like ants"...what is it with this thread turning everyone into a weirdo?

^reported for internet bullying photo

if you like stopping so much why don't you just stop every 100 yards and stand on the pavement for a while?

"desperately want to scurry around like ants"...what is it with this thread turning everyone into a weirdo?

When the lights are red, it's someone else's turn to be in motion. I like unbroken stretches of riding, and enjoy them often. Usually down a country lane or something, or going up and down a dual carriageway in an aero tuck.

The city is not a place where the fulfillment of individual goals (especially if they're essentially meaningless) should take precedence over the harmonic coexistence of those who make up the group. Unlike ants, we're not working for a queen. Unless you're some kind of royalist cunt.

When the lights are red, it's someone else's turn to be in motion. I like unbroken stretches of riding, and enjoy them often. Usually down a country lane or something, or going up and down a dual carriageway in an aero tuck.

The city is not a place where the fulfillment of individual goals (especially if they're essentially meaningless) should take precedence over the harmonic coexistence of those who make up the group. Unlike ants, we're not working for a queen. Unless you're some kind of royalist cunt.

i assure you this is absolutely how i ride (and generally live)

and i have no 'individual goals' except minimising how late i am for whatever i'm heading to. sadly leaving earlier is beyond me.

^^steve buscemeyes?

I didn't know you loved your job that much.

I can't really get into nature documentaries.