On 08/11/2012 15:31, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 15:09:50 on Thu, 8 Nov 2012,
Mizter T remarked:

I rather expect you'd say any cyclist riding on a public road was by
definition 'deliberately putting themselves in harm's way'.

For example the cyclist I saw the other day.

Approaching a Pelican crossing of the kind that has a central island and
separate signals for each half. When the crossing on his side of the
road was at "red for road, green for pedestrians" he rode along the
middle of the road and onto the island. The lights for the second half
(traffic coming towards him) were "red for pedestrians and green for the
road" but he ignored that and careered across against the traffic and
onto the pavement on the far side, which he then proceeded to cycle along.

A non-sequiter response to my sentence (quoted above) if there ever was one.

Serious, straightforward question - do you think cycling on the road is
inherently a bad thing? Or would you prefer to 'answer' that with an
observation?