Cyclists
I like waiting at a crossing for the lights to go red and looking out for a cyclist who is clearly going to jump the lights. Then I step out in from of him. I would love one of them to run into me so I could sue them for the injuries.
(Mork, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 13:17, 8 replies)

Boot on the other foot.
Car drivers have no excuse, the just rest their foot on one pedal and car goes faster. Rest their foot ont he other one and they go slower.

Now cyclists.. they have to pedal like crazy using lots of energy and its totally knackering to get to the cruise speed that they are at. Then to stop takes a finger splicing hard grip on the breaks, and then to balance the bike so they dont fall off it.

So if some c**t hits the light just as im about to go through, im f**kin going through coz i cant be arsed with going through the stop start procedure. Stopping a bike is like stopping a train. And if someone ran out infront of me id collide with them then cycle off again faster than they could leg it after me :)
(Miggyman, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 13:36, closed)

I do this too
and I cycle everywhere.

Miggyman - nearly all ped crossing lights have a delay so that they don't suddenly change immediately after you press the button.

Only twats jump the lights. There's a lot of them out there. Miggyman appears to be one of them.
( chthonic, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 13:54, closed)

^ this
Next one that jumps the lights is going to get his back wheel stamped on.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 14 Mar 2008, 14:06, closed)

I'm a cyclist
I usually wait at the lights unless they're changing just as I go through. But if you stepped out in front of me, I'd catch your temple with my elbow. You'd go down like a sack of shit. And I wouldn't stop.

Done it before.
(frankspencer, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 14:16, closed)

I'm with Cthonic
I cycle, but I don't jump red lights; it isn't difficult to change gears. Just because you don't want to stop doesn't give you the right to run a red light Miggy; it's pillocks like you that get all of us tarred with the same brush. If you're on a single speed or fixed wheel, that's your tough titty, nobody forced you to ditch gears.
( uncle bastard is twanging a dan moi, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 14:26, closed)

Both
I'm both a cyclist and a driver, I've seen some horrendous things done by both parties not to mention some pretty fucking arrogant pedestrians too.

I've had car drivers scream at me because they didn't see me (BMW driver in a hurry to pull out of a car park and didn't like being called a twat - he then tried to ram me off the road), likewise I've had cyclists cross a pedestrian crossing against a red light expecting broadside traffic to stop simply because they didn't want to get wet in the rain.

I'm also fed up of bumfluff faced chavs crossing the road slowly in a "I dare you to run me over" type fashion. One day, I will.

The best rule of thumb is "Don't be a cunt". If you are, don't complain when someone drags you from your bike/car and twats you before damaging your preferred method of transport.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 14 Mar 2008, 14:36, closed)

Bikes
I had to laugh at "stopping a bike is like stopping a train". Is it really? Fuck my hat, how much of a genuine hassle is it to stop at traffic lights and then start riding again? It's not like there's some complex stopping/starting procedure. You pedal, you stop pedalling and pull the brake, you start pedalling again. Unless of course you have some sort of super bike. In which case, I'd like one because mine's poo.
(Crayola Oblongata Is it Monday?, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 15:40, closed)

+ Chthonic, -Miggyman
I ride everywhere and generally there's no excuse not to stop at lights.

However, having had someone wait across the pavement from a zebra crossing, see me coming and run across the pavement and to the other side of the crossing so he could push me off my bike and shout "you're supposed to stop, it's a zebra crossing!", I don't think it's particularly clever to bait cyclists.

I wasn't quick-witted or aggressive enough in that moment to do anything more than shout "oh well done, you've pushed me over, do you feel manly?" and get on my bike and ride off...
( sanityclause is waiting until, Sat 15 Mar 2008, 1:11, closed)