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2008-09-08 10:04 AM
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Its hard to stop when your going 25 mph.  Red lights are for cars    I hate riding on the streets, I use bike trails.  But just like running, I don't think you should wait for a green light when there is no traffic coming trough.

 

 

p.s How can you call it a training ride if your stopping at red lights?



2008-09-08 11:33 AM
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benc84 - 2008-09-08 10:04 AM

Its hard to stop when your going 25 mph.  Red lights are for cars    I hate riding on the streets, I use bike trails.  But just like running, I don't think you should wait for a green light when there is no traffic coming trough.

 

 

p.s How can you call it a training ride if your stopping at red lights?

I hope you're kidding.

2008-09-08 11:41 AM
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I think that in these situations, an example goes a lot further than words.  You stopped, and he knows that.  You are faster than him, and he knows that.  Just blow by him instead of stopping to chastise (which as often as not will have the opposite of the intended effect anyway). 
Now you've set an example:  the cool cyclists stop at lights.
2008-09-08 12:46 PM
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LaurenSU02 - 2008-09-07 9:27 AM

I do go through redlights if I am the only one and can't trip the sensor.

Typically, the people on cruisers and mountain bikes are the ones that don't understand the rules of the road and don't recognize that their bike is a vehicle. They're the same people you see on the sidewalks and on the wrong side of the road.



I do all my training and raced on my Mtn bike and I always stop at red lights, in fact in my town which is a big biking town I see many roadies ignoring the red stop lights and also the fourway stops. Countless times I'll be sitting at the red light and a road bike will come flying past me and run straight through the light. I don't really think (at least where I ride) the the Mtn bikers are any worse then the roadies.
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