For the previous, thanks fans.

Going into the Imax junction before Waterloo station, Woppit sees a bunch of cyclists stopped at the red light. He has a quick look and can’t see anything coming from the feeder road on the left so stamps on the pedal and shoots into the empty space… just in time to catch the briefest image, out of the corner of his left eye, of… a car. Right there. Virtually on top of him and so close that neither he or the car driver had time to react.

There being less than a razor’s width of time difference between absolute catastrophe and staying alive in Woppit’s favour, the car passed ascloseasthis to his back wheel (insert sound effect of rapidly vibrating rectal cavity here).

A split second earlier and Woppit would have suddenly become a screaming, twisted and bloody mess all over the tarmac from being hit broadside on, so: Hmmm. Yes. Stopping at red lights goooood. Jumping red lights baaaad.

Still think the rear view mirror’s a good idea, mind.

Especially on a clown bike.

your bike only has one pedal.

I virtually killed you. is that a near death experience

You refer to yourself in the third person in the OP.

He does indeed…

Yeti thinks that Woppit actually got hit and that this is a posthumous post.

Oh right, in reference to a previous post or something?

(glad you survived obviously)

Divine intervention.

Tit

+1

Too much self-abuse.

Divine intervention.

Mr Woppit being saved by god?
If so I’m rethinking my athiestic position…..
Or maybe a clown stupidly jumping a red light gets very lucky.
But at least Mr W had the guts to admit his folly on here.
Let’s hope it changes your behaviour.
Oh and glad you’re still alive….if you really are.Perhaps this is 🙂the proof of god test for all of us religious thread posters

at least you’re man enough to admit your riding skills/judgement were poor and you’ve learnt something from the experience
Pity all the other RLJers don’t see your post.
What amuses me with the RLJers in London is I almost always catch up with them – there’s so many lights that you have to stop every 3 minutes anyway…

When I worked in London a long time ago I was enjoying getting faster and more daring on my commute. Then I came extremely close to being flattened by a bloke suddenly deciding to turn right from a queue of cars as I was bombing past said queue very quickly. Settled down after that.

at least you’re man enough to admit your riding skills/judgement were poor and you’ve learnt something from the experience

Yes. Check both ways carefully before treating a RL as a give way.

They’re pretty piss poor RLJers then 🙂

They’re pretty piss poor RLJers then

Exactly, the lights people jump tend to be when the road ahead is clear, which only happens some of the time.
Which is why they don’t actually make much better progress.
So, risk dying for what benefit exactly?

Is something missing in your real life?

Had I adopted ernie’s riding style, I might have entertained the sensible cyclists even more…

Having had a very very near miss a few days ago with a total dork of a speeding cyclist whilst I was walking across a zebra crossing, all I can say is…. T**t.

We all walk a thin line between being here and not being here, I’m not risk averse, but it helps all of humanity if we just become a little bit more aware.

Quite right, slacky. Was it a Brompton?

Divine intervention.

Different kind of Divine

Hehe! No, I think it was a 29r…

Were you jumping red lights, the driver probably thought theres that t**t on a brompton, I’ll have him 😉