Quit running red lights fellow commuters

You make us all look bad.

seriously! i can't stand this either.

that and the random weaving through traffic, across multiple lanes without looking, riding side by side with their buddies chatting about the marvels of knitting woollen hats.

I can't lie, I mostly treat commuting like a game of Grand Theft Auto. No rules.

Going the wrong way, on the sidewalk, running lights, running stop signs.

I think I was influenced by watching couriers in T.O back in the early 90's when I was in impressionable young teen.

All these years later I break most of the rules daily on my short commute here in N.Van.

red lights are like skinnies… instant flow killers. JF in Kranked 2 ftw.

I'll stop for anybody, I'll even stop for nobody. But I'm not standing around waiting if there's nobody around. (This only happens on the AM commute.)

My message to fellow commuters would be about stop signs: Just because you are on a bike doesn't mean you have a god-given right to ignore the sign and go first.

I'll stop for anybody, I'll even stop for nobody. But I'm not standing around waiting if there's nobody around.

this. sorry, but some rules i just can't abide on my bike

You make us all look bad.

my hope is that some motorists get envious and decide to come over to the dark side :devil:

The one spot that I try to follow the rules always turns into a cluster.

I've complained before about the intersection at St. Andrews and 3rd. While waiting to cross by the rules random motorists will stop and treat me like a pedestrian, but the other lane will keep on trucking. So I wait, and the motorist gets this odd look on their face mad about the lost time of waiting.

I agree with you but the fact is self absorbed its all about me people are going to be self absorbed its all about me people. Asking them to do otherwise is a waste of time.

It's a tough call. The simplest approach is to treat bikes like a vehicle, and then everyone just follows the rules. Sometimes if I can see someone is going to wait for me in a bad situation like this^^, I won't make eye contact and look the other way for traffic. It seems to send the message pretty quick.

I practice trackstands. I can trackstand pretty much indefinitely on a flat or uphill slope on 700CX25 tires. I can also make positional adjustments by rocking my bike backwards uphill when I'm stopped on a downward slope to keep behind the stop line. I'm first out of the blocks when the light changes, and quietly sneer everytime I see people put their feet down at stops and lights (esp people with $7000 road bikes and a cyling kit that cost more than my bike did new). I'm working on no-hander trackstands, but that's an order of magnitude harder quite high-consequence.

When people ask me how I got good at trackstands, I say "Lots and lots of red lights".

As seen last night, at 6pm, a unknown female commuter cutting across the intersection of Main St and Harbour Ave (Cove Bikes) on a diagonal from the south east corner to the North West… no signals on a red light !

As a former van bike courier im not sure what these red lights you refer to are…

As a former van bike courier im not sure what these red lights you refer to are…

LOL

although where i live now there is only like 4 lights or so….does make it easier to avoid them…i yield to logging trucks tho..seems like a good idea..