RLJing

salsajake

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

I have a problem with one set of lights on my way home just outside work which leads me on to a short dual carriage way. When I'm leaving work at half 8 at night it's really quiet no cars come out of work the way I do. The lights however just don't realise I'm there. I actually waited upto nearly 10mins one day till I thought f**k it and went as soon as it was clear. What else could I do? Yet If i was spotted by a cop they'd have me :?

This may not work, because I don't know what kind of junction it is but if you are looking at 10 minutes waiting: Get off your bike, walk it onto the pavement. Walk to the next section of 'live road'. Look carefully. Put bike on road, climb on, look carefully again and ride on. No laws broken, not much time lost, everyone happy.

MrChuck

lost_in_thought wrote:

MrChuck wrote:

biondino wrote:

I came across a roadie last night at Sloane Square who immediately pissed me off by squeezing past me to filter through some traffic entering the square. I pissed *him* off by then squeezing back through when he was slowed by a car. But that's not the point...

When we were halfway down Kings Road, this guy, who had been doing the stopping/slowing right down kind of RLJing, tried to do so again having ascertained that the lights on the cross road were changing. He didn't anticipate the cab who decided to try and squeeze through at the last (or possibly beyond the last) moment and let out an almighty roar as the cab headed straight towards him. He missed being knocked over by about 2 feet as the cab slammed on its brakes.

As I followed him down the road, I toyed with all the things I could say to him at the next lights (assuming he stopped for them), about hoping he's learned his lesson. I didn't, in the end. It would just have been petty :twisted:

I ended up completely pwning him on Putney Bridge. Felt great

This really captures something about RLJing I think- the assumption that it's OK for the RLJer to do it, but absolutley not for anyone else to be doing it.

What's needed in these situations is some sort of simple, universally-recognised system to let everybody know who has right of way...

Yeah, I think MrChuck's on to something here... just throwing this out there, but what about some kind of thing with coloured lights?

I was thinking of some colour-coded flags or something, but that could work...

fungus_the_muffin_man

salsajake wrote:

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

I have a problem with one set of lights on my way home just outside work which leads me on to a short dual carriage way. When I'm leaving work at half 8 at night it's really quiet no cars come out of work the way I do. The lights however just don't realise I'm there. I actually waited upto nearly 10mins one day till I thought f**k it and went as soon as it was clear. What else could I do? Yet If i was spotted by a cop they'd have me :?

This may not work, because I don't know what kind of junction it is but if you are looking at 10 minutes waiting: Get off your bike, walk it onto the pavement. Walk to the next section of 'live road'. Look carefully. Put bike on road, climb on, look carefully again and ride on. No laws broken, not much time lost, everyone happy.

The only problem is I need to be on the otherside of the road. I could do it the way you say but that would lead me up to a rather nasty multi lane roundabout (due to the way people drive around it) which I purposely avoid by going out of the back way of work instead of the front. But as you say that would be the lawful way to do it. I'm just not sure it would be the safest. After working in a hospital all day I don't wanna end up back there as a "customer"