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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've never seen a fellow cyclist run a stop sign or red light. It just flat doesn't happen. This whole thing is a myth. [/quote]

I’ve seen cyclists do this when I’ve been on my bike, and when I’ve been in my car or on foot. I’ve also seen cars do it. It certainly happens. The difference is that some drivers appear only to see cyclists when we do something memorably dangerous, which is why you get people in threads like this insisting that EVERY cyclist breaks the law all the time and with flagrant impunity.

Obviously you should stop for buses and stop signs in any vehicle.

The worst bike crash I ever had, meanwhile, was when a young kid dashed out into the street off the sidewalk between two parked cars in the middle of the block. I saw her in time to slam on my brakes and basically deliberately wipe out so I didn’t hit her. It was a blast. (Had to get a new helmet.) So let’s call it a wash karmically — I crashed my bike into the ground once to avoid hitting a kid who shouldn’t have been in the street and that makes up for the cyclist OP saw.[/quote]

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