Lost my Virginity RLJ'ing

[Deleted member 26715]

Always been against it, couldn't understand people doing it until today, out for a ride & on the way back came to a humpback bridge that the Elves with their safety laws have decided needs to now have lights. So Aluminium bike made sure I rode over both of the sensor coils in the road & stops at the line. Wait 1 minute, wait 2 minute, wait 3 minutes, looks behind still no cars coming, so I turned around & rode back over the coils, turned around & back to the line. Wait 1 minute, wait 2 minutes, oh bugger this, so slowly went through the lights & onto the bridge, nothing was coming so I crossed, I was a further 2 miles down the road before the first car overtook me. So I figure that I would have been waiting at least 15 minutes waiting for a car to tigger the lights if I had decided not to cross, I know it was illegal but what would others have done?

Alan...

 

[ianrauk]

Same as you. Gone through on red.

 

[smokeysmoo]

I wouldn't have done that myself
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I'd have gone through on red far sooner than you did

 

[rich p]

I'd have gone through too and ridden straight to church and asked the Lord for forgiveness. Or to the pub and not given it another thought.

 

[Tyke]

Probably the same as you but without the second go at the sensors.
If you wanted to stay legal you could always have got off and pushed it across as a pedestrian.

 

[marinyork]

If you want a really, really, really, really, really boring answer then the standard advise from the police around these parts is you should wait four minutes before proceeding on an apparently broken or non-triggering light. Reading your response in a literalistic fashion, you actually waited longer than this.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

You must be a light weight , eat more pies.

 

[marinyork]

You must be a light weight , eat more pies.

You could eat metal also. Might get in the guinness book of records and trigger off more lights.

 

[jayonabike]

Yep. Been there, done that.

 

[biggs682]

you hooligan bet you were riding a hipster

 

[Booyaa]

I would also have gone through on red in that instance

 

[Dangermouse]

I would have done exactly the same, no fun waiting at lights when you can obviously see there's no danger from oncoming traffic.

 

[Blue]

 

[zimzum42]

You ought to pop a wheelie as you go through the red

 

[rich p]

You ought to pop a wheelie as you go through the red

...and bunny hop up onto the pavement