RLJers (ding ding Round 1)

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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    It's ALWAYS wrong when:

    - there are any pedestrians crossing, about to cross or may cross even if it doesn't appear they will
    - you're stopped at a road junction
    - there is any chance whatsoever of something you can't currently see happening that would endanger someone's safety
    - if RLJing would cause danger or uncertainty to someone ahead of you (say, approaching from a side road 20 yards beyond the lights)
    - when there are police nearby :)

    Any other examples?
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Sewinman wrote:
    Have to admit to RLJing. I have never really thought about it being wrong. I accept the points being made and will re-evaluate.

    However, there are occasions when I think it helps my safety to get a head start, so i coast a few yards through the red light and wait in front of it looking at the lights at the other side of the junction for my cue to go. That way in some cases I can get a 5 yard start on the traffic and get in the right lane. There is a classic example of this on the North side of Vauxhall bridge.

    Is this wrong?

    Oh dear oh dear oh dear thumps head onto desk in despair

    That very junction is one of the worst for offenders, as there are four sets of oncoming multilane traffic and there you go (I can see you now) trackstanding on flat pedals, wobbling out into the junction pushing ahead before your turn...and inevitably being passed by a lot of quicker riders who do wait for the green...tsk tsk tsk Sewinman I hope you hang your head in shame and if you make it out for beers on Friday you will be fined one pint (ahem)
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  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    Littigator wrote:
    Oh dear oh dear oh dear thumps head onto desk in despair

    That very junction is one of the worst for offenders, as there are four sets of oncoming multilane traffic and there you go (I can see you now) trackstanding on flat pedals, wobbling out into the junction pushing ahead before your turn...and inevitably being passed by a lot of quicker riders who do wait for the green...tsk tsk tsk Sewinman I hope you hang your head in shame and if you make it out for beers on Friday you will be fined one pint (ahem)

    Heh heh busted...that is sooo true. I tried track standing this very morning and nearly fell flat on my face. Even if i can't make it for beers you can all lean out of the window and heckle...its not far. Have you lot met before? I would be worried about being actually scalped or my ear used for a necklace. I have seen the film 'The Game' with Michael Douglas and the edge between reality and the game can become somewhat blury.
  • womble88
    womble88 Posts: 32
    Thing that really pisses me off is the git's that decides to queue jump the cycle queue at a set of lights, but has actually been overtaken several times by everyone in the queue - particulalry the bespectacled git on my commute, I will punch him out if he does it again and I end up overtaking him straight away - I keep heckling him, but it simply is not getting through.

    ...that drives me mad too. I've only just started commuting regularly by bike into central London, but have always ridden in/around London so was at least partly prepared for all the idiots in cars trying to run me off the road, 'not seeing me', overtaking me only yo turn immediately left across me...

    ....but what has surprised me is how many idiots there are on bikes too, who insist on overtaking through red lights repeatedly, or on weaving round me at the lights and stopping right in front of me, only for me to have to pass them again and again (not that I'm even that fast!)...

    ...even worse are the ones who undertake, when I'm waiting at the lights but in the 'primary position' i.e. not squeezed totally up to the kerb, so that I'm visible to cars. So many times I've gone to push off as the lights go green only for some moron to come rushing up the inside and virtually knock me off. Just slow down as you approach red lights and if you want to get past, overtake after the lights!

    I'm not saying I never RLJ, but really very very rarely - only when left turning and no cars or pedestrians are anywhere remotely near...
  • andrewc3142
    andrewc3142 Posts: 906
    It's clear why this sort of subject is grist to the mill for the average Daily Mail reader. Nothing better to do than to complain about the behaviour of others. Probably end up that RLJers are all the fault of Nu Labour and immigrants and the only solution is to leave hopeless Britain and become an ... um ... immigrant.
  • boybiker
    boybiker Posts: 531
    I think the need to jump lights is down to trying to compensate for sexual inadequacy and small winkies. Which is why I never feel the need to jump any lights. :wink:
    The gear changing, helmet wearing fule.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Put some clothes on young man, we don't need to see that first thing in the monring!
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    biondino wrote:
    Put some clothes on young man, we don't need to see that first thing in the monring!

    Here here Biondino, Boybiker this is a family forum with family values for family people.

    Andrew C12762362945782394571945 - perhaps you should join my right wing focus group as you seem to have nailed our philosohpy down pretty tightly...ehh what!
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