According to Stop At Red - run by cyclists for cyclists - you're wrong
"A bicycle is classed as a vehicle like any other. Everyone knows that this leads to absurdities and anomalies in the way that the law is applied to cyclists in practice. Cycle campaigners are lobbying hard to remedy this; but politicians are unlikely to sign up to enhancing the legal status of an unpopular group of lawbreaking social outcasts."
www.stopatred.org/why.php

[edit]Actually just read this: www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/Cyclists/index.htm
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:35, 2 replies)

Excellent campaign
I've just signed up to the Stop At Red pledge, very good idea; I shall now stop going through red lights and jumping the green at all.
(Sir Itchalot has a very self-referential signature, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:14, closed)

Exactly the problem.
What needs to happen is Cycle police just like traffic police, and to come down hard on cyclists who jump the lights.

Cyclists should have to hold a license, and be subject to the same penalties as all other road traffic.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:16, closed)

In London Village it's on the increase:
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/16/police-cyclists-red-lights

Mainly because people are starting to get so fed up with it; city police have to respond to "community concerns" and RLJ tends to wind up just about everybody.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:19, closed)

The wording of the law is "mechanically propelled vehicle"
However, in the eyes of the law, muscle power is not mechanical. Bicycles are legally defined as:
"bicycle" means a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled solely by the muscular energy of the person on that vehicle by means of pedals and has not been constructed or adapted for propulsion by mechanical power;

As an engineer, this makes me cringe. It's saying:
A bicycle is a biomechanically-propelled vehicle that is not mechanically propelled. Although the statute is merely a clarification of case law which had previously determined that a pedal cycle is not an MPV.

Find the statute here:
www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2003/20031101.htm
(Mr T, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:46, closed)

I'd like to see a fine contested on such, though.
Just for the sheer joy of watching the cyclist get crushed.

FFS. "I didn't strangle them, my hands did!"
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:49, closed)

See, all I'm hearing is "Waaaaah, I want to break the law and I think I should be allowed to"
www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/Cyclists/index.htm

Please direct me to the section of the highway code that allows cyclists to jump red lights.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 14:45, closed)