RLJ cyclist, Battersea Park, Monday 23rd September

[slowmotion]

Yes, YOU!
Albert Gate doesn't have a very busy set of four-way lights, does it? Well, it's your choice to jump them, you stupid arrogant prat.

Could you do me a really big favour? Go under the wheels of something a couple of tonnes heavier than the 10kg of my bike that you dumbly missed?

Thank-you.

 

[Alan Frame]

I too am angered by RLJ'ers because their stupidity is used as a big stick by some motorists to tar us all.

Don't think I would go quite so far as to wish them dead though and on the conscience of some other road user.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Just be glad the numpty wasn't driving a car.

 

[Twelve Spokes]

Yes, YOU!
Go under the wheels of something a couple of tonnes heavier than the 10kg of my bike that you dumbly missed?

Thank-you.

Wow.

 

[Boris Bajic]

I'm sure none of us really wants to see a road user fall beneath the wheels of a moving vehicle. It is a sight to bring one's breakfast back in an uncontrolled fashion.

It is unpleasant to have a cyclist almost hit you while ignoring a signal, but these things happen.

Writing as an occasional hopper of urban red lights myself, I do get a little cross when riders 'go too far', but 99 percent of the RLJs I see are broadly benign in nature.

 

[Davidsw8]

I was the only cyclist out of 7 of us to stop at a red light on Lambeth Bridge this morning... I'm being charitable and assuming most of them didn't realise there's a light there as it's a bit of an odd place but even so, if you don't notice a red light, are you really capable of being on the road at all?

 

[slowmotion]

At the time, I had an overwhelming desire for a third party to cleanse the gene pool.
Still do.

 

[Cyclopathic]

At the time, I had an overwhelming desire for a third party to cleanse the gene pool.
Still do.

But what punishment would you reserve for people who do something more extreme even than rlj'ing? Death and something else first perhaps?

 

[slowmotion]

But what punishment would you reserve for people who do something more extreme even than rlj'ing? Death and something else first perhaps?

Brandy glasses pressed against every part of their soft anatomy with a a few hornets trapped in each one? Ken Russell had a clip.

No, I was just really pissed off that he came within inches of putting me down hard on the tarmac. It really wasn't very clever or "edgy".

Prat.

 

[Boris Bajic]

There was a Bunuel film where a chap is hitching on a long, tree-lined road.

A car fails to stop and the hitcher mutters something like "Oh, break your neck!".

The car swerves and hits a tree and the driver is killed.

I'm afraid I recall no other detail of the film, and as it was Bunuel I was probably only watching it to look clever... but I wonder whether the hitcher was Slowmotion.

I don't want to claim my five pounds, because I'm slightly nervous, but I think I might be right.

 

[Blurb]

I accidentally RLJ'ed the other day as I was distracted whilst stopped, looked up and somehow mistook the other junction's green for mine and started off. I did check it was clear also, so lived to tell the tale. I was mortified halfway across as I realised what had happened and pulled over for a quick "brake check" whilst the cars at the front of the queue went past.

 

[Leodis]

I hate RLJ as much as the next non RLJ'er but death... Close at times to wishing death but a good flipping slap would be best

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Death's too good for them. It's a good kick up the arse they need...


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