This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Such heat, many tears

Yep took the ladies details off . No use dropping her in it as well .

Do you feel you need to appease the drivers or something?

In the nicest way possible, why don't you just mind your own business? What, exactly, do you think shouting at someone is going to achieve? Other than making you feel better in some way? (And it's normally people who always, always, need someone to criticise, in order to make themselves feel bigger and better, who get most upset about RLJing. You don't want to align yourself with that sort of sad sack).
The idea that you would do it to assuage the anger of car divers is really sad. Firstly you are projecting on to them feelings you don't actually know they have. Second, why become yet another person who shouts at cyclists in order to appease anyone?
If it's not dangerous, isn't affecting anyone (and you didn't mention any categories of red light jumping, just the act itself) then let it go. It's none of your concern. Even if it is dangerous, then shouting is still not the answer. Really, think about it: what's your New Year's resolution? I'm going to start shouting at people who do something I don't approve of. Why? BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE ME FEEL BETTER!

RLJs are directly responsible for the people who post nonsense under news articles saying "cyclists all break the law anyway", who eventually end up on juries handing out a Not Guilty or behind the wheel doing a close pass.

And aside from that, it's dangerous for the RLJ, it's dangerous for pedestrians, and 99% of people who do it are knobheads who think they're too important to wait 20 seconds rather than people who've thought about risk and decided that it's safer because of left hooking or a person turning right across their path (which is a sort-of reasonable position).

Right I can see that this is going to turn into an argument that I'm sure has been had about 200 times before on here. I regret saying anything. So let's just talk about something else eh?

Edit: how about we talk about helmets or brakes, can't imagine that being controversial

I remember something @Skülly once said to me about RLJing. Actually, no, I don't. He says a lot of things, mostly about The Spanish and someone he calls The Governor (but not The Governor from the award-winning documentary series The Walking Dead).

Needs moar frozen sausage involvement. 5/10

Edit: in error, I may have typed 'Omar frozen sausage'. I'd like to make it clear that I now realise he has nothing to do with this and I apologise should he have found this offensive in any way.

How about this: design some sort of suspension system that pumps up a tank - basically stick a mini-pump between your steerer and crown - then you have a trigger on your bars with a hopper of frozen sausages and a paintball-gun-type thing on your stem. When you see a road user doing something naughty you put them down with a frozen sausage in the back of the head.

James Bond/nail-gun, No Country For Old Men/doorknob type situation.

I don't care either way and let whatever go. If people want to RLJ so be it. If people want to shout after RLJers I'm also happy to let them do it. Let your balls hang out is what I say. (Not actually literally - but actually if you do then fair enough)

Current projects thread? 8/10 subscribed

(Lots of stealth edits going on here)

Well now, if you are talking about balls then @Skülly certainly does have things to say. A Beethoven of the bollocks, a Turing of the testicles, a Gershwin of the gonads. He could talk, and frequently has talked, for hours about balls. No one is better read on the subject and even the world's finest scrotal surgeons acknowledge his mastery. As far as I know his interest in sub-equatorial matters started when he was. Bloody hell, hold on, the phone's ringing.

Sounds like you need about 8000 psi to fill a paintball gun tank thing and it fires a ball with 500-1000 psi. Might be a bit beyond my mini-pump. Shock pumps go up to about 600psi, so if you could get a paintball-sized sausage you could fire a single sausage... every hundred km I guess?

Edit: pretty handy actually, when the tank fills up and your suspension locks out you know you've got a sausage locked and loaded

Disappoint.

Drafting bus on the way home the whole back row were enthralled... just getting their phones out to record my glorious cycling efforts (piss easy sat right behind the bus but let's not break the illusion for them) when it pulled over and I had to nip past it and deal with breaking through the air myself. 8/10

Drafting bus

Hmmm..

Looks like @hippy is so pro he was drafting the sky train

I'm going to start shouting at people who shout at RLJs

And pigeons. They deserve a good shouting.

Sure, well looks like your all set to berate any RLJs for 2018 so good luck.

Hats off to the thundercunt in the Royal Mail van that sent me careering into a pedestrian to avoid a collision at Bricklayers Arms/New Kent Road roundabout thing.

Was quite amused by a cyclist who yelled at me for continuing through on amber because it prevented him jumping the red light perpendicular to me.

Their lives are much enriched for their first experience of hippy worship.

I muttered to an oncoming RLJing moped who cut across the Blackfriars cycle lane right into the southbound bikes that he was a fucking prick. I don't think anyone heard as they were making too much noise pretending they were on horses. WOAH!

ITT; rljers tryna defend themselves

i don't rlj, but i'm not going to piss on the parade of anyone that does. it's your fuckin' life, pal.