First, let me say I am one of those annoying people (to those behind me) when I drive my car in that I come to a FULL stop at EVERY stop sign, ALWAYS. It's just not worth the risk of a ticket and the risk of hitting a kid on a scooter or something to save 0.01 second of time.

And, thankfully I commute by bike on trails and MUPs and quiet residential streets, so I roll through most stop signs on these quiet neighborhood streets IF there are no cars in sight. If there's a moving car within sight, I stop, if only so they won't think, "oh, there goes another of those evil scofflaw bikers", but also for safety. There's one stop sign 3/4 of the way up a long hill that I HATE to stop for, but I do when there's a car around.

However, just for the sake of discussion, it seems to me that you are required to carry a drivers license when you operate a motor vehicle but there is no such requirement on a bike. And I'll admit I still look at a lot of bike stuff as I did when I was a kid - as if the bike is the equivalent of a skateboard or roller skates or a pogo stick - WHEN USED ON QUIET RESIDENTIAL STREETS, NOT OUT IN TRAFFIC. <--- I understand that last part very well.

So what would happen if a cop pulled you over (assuming he could catch you - where I live there are so many trails and I know all the cut-throughs in the neighborhoods that a cop in a car wouldn't stand a chance) and you didn't have ID (it's perfectly legal not to have any) and used your Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.

Sure, he could probably haul you to jail, maybe, although I don't see stop-sign running IN A QUIET RESIDENTIAL AREA (just stressing that again) as a crime worthy of an officer's time doing all that paperwork, having to appear in court, and so forth.

I hope cops have better things to do and wouldn't bother a rider who looks like he rides regularly when he blows a stop sign on a quiet street with no other moving cars anywhere around. You guys know what I mean by the look of the biker, right? Helmet, lights maybe, tight shorts, body posture and position on the road that says "I ride regularly", etc. - as compared to a shirtless guy in flip-flops on a cruiser bike with a beer in the cupholder and so forth.

Last part and then I'll stop with this already-too-long post:

Let's say a rider blows a stop sign, and a cop sees it, goes after the cyclist, and the cyclist stops and presents his motor vehicle drivers license. Does the cop write a ticket as if the guy was driving a car, and does the cyclist then get points on his motor vehicle drivers license and then pay higher car insurance rates?

If so, and if in the quiet residential streets of which I speak, I say that's wrong.

Feel free to disagree but that's how I see it.