Originally Posted by
Hypno Toad
If you have a death-wish, please run all the red lights. (yes, the SUV can still get you while following the 'safety guidelines'; I have a long list of names I can share of riders 'doing it right' that are now nothing more than a memory and a ghost bike).
Thank you!! The bolded crystalizes the essential FAIL of this threads premise. How long is the list of names you can share of riders doing it wrong? Buy you a condo if that list is even half as long as the list of riders doing it right. Ever see a high wire artist fall to their death when working without a safety net? Me either. I've never seen any of them fall into a safety net either, but I KNOW that the list of high wire artists that have fallen into safety nets is longer than the list of those that have died from not having nets. The higher risk focuses the artist pushes them to extract every ounce of talent they possess. Or else. Red light runners make it more often than not because they have to. They know that. The rest of you are just pantywaist haters.