RLJ’ers... a popular misconception

[rog]

We all know that red light jumpers are either impatient, pushy blokes or scary messenger types right?

Wrong!

As the lady in pink will now demonstrate…

View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fhqC_JafEFY


P.S. this thread is not an attempt to start another debate about RLJ’ing. This girl is clearly an idiot who will very shortly become another statistic…

 

[jay clock]

I got the impression it was going to be a mumsy type woman. She looked like a serious commuter with a high level of confidence. Too high. Having said that, it seemed that at the fisrt light she could probably see clearly if it was clear. The second one looked dodgier.

I would say that assuming the cam is on your helmet you do not seem to look left or right very much. As you approach light no 2 the Merc and the bus and other cars behind seem to close in on you as you prepare to undertake. You only look to the right very late on...

 

[spandex]

I think she is just impatient and has a death wish!

 

[leoc]

Welcome Rog!

We all know that red light jumpers are either impatient, pushy blokes or scary messenger types right?

I don't think any regular cyclist thinks this, at least in London I see all sorts of folk RLJ and all sorts wait.

I wait because I don't like having to work out if it's safe or not to do something that unpredictable. I.e I stay calmer if I wait

 

[BentMikey]

I would say that assuming the cam is on your helmet you do not seem to look left or right very much. As you approach light no 2 the Merc and the bus and other cars behind seem to close in on you as you prepare to undertake. You only look to the right very late on...

I'm not sure it's possible to make such assumptions about his looking. Your eyes move a lot more than your head and the camera do, and there's peripheral vision too.

 

[spandex]

Sorry Roq I missed that you was new


Welcome to CC

 

[hackbike 6]

What's happened to your avatar spandex?

The eyes used to spin round.

 

[robz400]

Anyone else find her very attractive?

I get the impression she'd be great in bed

 

[mr_cellophane]

Whoa that second one. There could easily have been a car tight up behind that bus.

 

[hackbike 6]

Anyone else find her very attractive?

I get the impression she'd be great in bed

Fnar Fnar.

 

[cheadle hulme]

You held a good pace behind that Porsche - very impressive.
I think the second one she was just pi55ed off that you'd cruised past and wanted to prove a point - not sure what point though.
I stayed watching until the end of the clip thinking the light would go green and you'd catch back up at some sort of lightspeed.
Welcome.

 

[ufkacbln]

Anyone else find her very attractive?

I get the impression she'd be great in bed

I would be very interested in the reasoning behind that conclusion!!!!

(Or is "red light jumping" a euphemism for something else?)

 

[John the Monkey]

The fella who nearly ran into me (he jumped a red without looking to see if anything was coming from the direction I was - fortunately for him I was watching, and was on a bike, not driving a bus, or similar) was an old-ish chap on a black roadster type bike - takes all sorts I suppose.

 

[Twiggy]

actually, you can clearly see the light was amber red, (hence changing to green). So pretty much all other traffic should be on red by that point.

I don't brake for amber+red, because I know I'll be just pushing the peddles that much harder in less than two seconds.

Second set of lights, depends, I might have chanced it if I thought some bloke was following me.

But in all seriousness, I'd probably have done the first set of lights the same way, though wouldn't have chanced the second set.

 

[Eat MY Dust]

Whoa that second one. There could easily have been a car tight up behind that bus.

She probably could have seen that there wasn't a car behind the bus.......however, there could have easily been another cyclist and if she hit a cyclist at that speed there would have been one big mess!

BTW wasn't that a ped waiting at the first zebra crossing?