Screw that. If you got the time appeal. A fine is actually a tax. If the gov cared about you running stop signs they'd make the fine a months pay, or 3 days in jail. Waste the courts time, make it so they don't get so much money from you. When you just pay all they have to do is pay a cop that can hand out 20 tickets an hour, when you go to court they have to pay magistrate clerks and everything else. At least you can try to get them to lower it or claim ignorance (bikes have to stop too?), at the very least you can post pone the payment a couple of months.

+1 on looking then blowing