Some people think it's pefectly legal to run lights on a bike.

anyon said:
I am not afraid of cars running red lights, 99.99% of cars stop
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I'd challenge that.

People will do what they can get away with and it's generally easier for people to get away with stuff if they are on a bike. I see loads of cars, trucks, scooters and motorbike blatantly jumping red lights every day in London.

Not as many as I do cyclists, but it's still a lot.
 
Jonny69 said:
I'm amazed anyone cares too. It affects their life so little while they're sitting at a red light in their car. Surely there must be more important things to worry about, like picking their noses maybe?
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Sorry Jonny, got to disagree, but the I'm probably the only person here who has run over a red light jumping cyclist I have to say it can and does affect other people.
 
About 6 years ago I was with my mate on a country road when we came up against workmens traffic lights and he was about fifth in the queue.
You could see oncoming traffic no problem so he decided to pull out and go through the traffic lights.
There was a police car who was second in the queue and my mate knew he was there.
Of course I shouted 'WTF are you doing' and he just said that he could do that if nothing was coming the other way.
Of course Mr Bobby pulled straight out and pulled him over and he must have been in a good mood because my mate was adamant he was in the right but he let him off.
 
dmpoole said:
About 6 years ago I was with my mate on a country road when we came up against workmens traffic lights and he was about fifth in the queue.
You could see oncoming traffic no problem so he decided to pull out and go through the traffic lights.
There was a police car who was second in the queue and my mate knew he was there.
Of course I shouted 'WTF are you doing' and he just said that he could do that if nothing was coming the other way.
Of course Mr Bobby pulled straight out and pulled him over and he must have been in a good mood because my mate was adamant he was in the right but he let him off.
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Right?
 
On one hand I should think it's more dangerous to jump lights when on a bycicle, harder to spot and less acceleration to manoeuvre out of harms way.
 
Christ, after reading some of the comments about cyclists I believe my soul should have evaporated by now.

Most of the summer I rode home without any lights, and on pavements.

It was 15 minutes and the roads were dead though, but no excuse I know...
 
Jonny69 said:
I'm amazed anyone cares too. It affects their life so little while they're sitting at a red light in their car. Surely there must be more important things to worry about, like picking their noses maybe?
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What about people waiting to cross the road! :p

The amount of times I've nearly got mowed down by a cyclist!

Plus the ones who use the pavements... they get verbal abuse if I am around!

BB x
 
Moothead2 said:
Crossroads. I'll leave it at that :rolleyes:.
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A soap opera from the 1980s? What's your point?

My point: you're sitting at a red light. A cyclist jumps it. You're still sitting at a red light until it changes. Why has it bothered you so much when it hasn't even affected your life? Move on; find something worthwhile to moan about.

[DOD]Asprilla, I'm sorry you ran down a cyclist who jumped a light. I nearly get hit by cars every week when they jump lights. It's the same set of lights where I've been hit twice already. To be honest, if a cyclist is stupid enough to jump the lights into the path of a car then let them do it. It's one less I have to overtake in front of an aggressive moron in a nearly-new Merc or a clueless blonde girl in a Clio who doesn't know the size of her car.
 
Jonny69 said:
A soap opera from the 1980s? What's your point?

My point: you're sitting at a red light. A cyclist jumps it. You're still sitting at a red light until it changes. Why has it bothered you so much when it hasn't even affected your life? Move on; find something worthwhile to moan about.
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Your whole "I couldn't give a ****" argument is based on being in the same lane as those jumping the lights. If I'm going from left to right and the cyclist jumps the lights going at a crossroads and I hit him I don't particularly look forward to the hassle with my insurance and potentially killing someone. So yes, I give as much a **** about a cylcist jumping the lights as I do a car (May even more) or a padestrian crossing the road when they're not supposed to.
 
As if you'd not cross the road until the green man is up if it's perfectly safe to do so and not a car in sight, you'd just look like a total plonker.
 
yhack said:
It's a waste of energy if I stop for lights and nobody is there. Go cycling through a town for a month and see how hard it is to bother stopping after a while.
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Have been cycling for two months and still adhere to the rules of the road.


Shame a lot of motorists choose to ignore them when it concerns the right of way of a bike however!

colzboppo said:
Oh and the only thing that annoys me about motorists is their refusal to accept cyclist crossing into the middle and right of the lane(s) to turn right, WE ARE TRAFFIC TOO, just because you can normally overtake us in the regular flow of traffic does not mean you can continue to do so when we are attempting to turn right..
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This bugs me too. I actually got shouted at by a motorist this week for having the audacity to move into the right hand lane.
 
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It does seem to me that most of the stories of this happening are from London, is London's traffic system different to elsewhere? Because i don't know of many places where you could jump the lights without either riding straight into traffic or putting yourself at severe risk.
 
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