Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
I do not think I have ever seen any adult cyclist "blow through a stop sign" i.e. ride through a stop sign at speed without paying any attention at all to potential approaching traffic. No doubt they exist somewhere because so many BF posters castigate such reckless behavior, but I suspect that the bloody results of such behavior would remove these "red light blowing" scofflaws from the bicycling population, if not the general population in short order.
I've witnessed it a couple times, but certainly no more often than drivers doing the same thing. It's a rare event. One guy I saw do it on a red light and just miss getting run over. I actually caught up to him after I waited out the light and told him how close to oblivion he had come. We actually had a pretty good chat about it. He was relatively new to cycling, and thought that behavior was "normal". He was actually grateful for the pointer.
I have a four-way stop sign I regularly "blow", but like I said, it's four way, and I can see very well when there's no cars on the cross street. If there's a car approaching or waiting at the corner I'll stop, but otherwise I don't slow down at all.