This time the crazy driver seems to be the cyclist!
Bike license? Do any of you have to have one of those?
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02-10-2009, 12:54 AM #1
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02-10-2009, 04:00 AM #2
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I do. I got mine at my local police station. It's a sticker that goes on your frame, and the police keep a description of your bike and its serial # on file.
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02-10-2009, 08:03 AM #3
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Many cities and towns have bicycle licenses, but they are *not* cyclist licenses - they are more like tabs for your car and generally meant to facilitate returning stolen/lost bicycles. As far as I know (this has been extensively discussed in the Seattle area) there are no places in the US that require cyclists to be licensed to ride a bike. Originally Posted by uforgot
On the other topic.... there are plenty of drunken cyclists too... many of them get there after they have lost their license to drive a car..... In Seattle it is not a ticketable traffic offense to ride a bike drunk..., but the police can impound your bike if they think you are a danger to yourself. They can also give you a ticket for public intoxication, I think, if you are way over the edge, but that's got nothing to do with the bike.Last edited by Eden; 02-10-2009 at 10:12 AM.
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02-10-2009, 10:08 AM #4
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There are also annual "pub crawls". I know many a person who has admitted their worst injury occurred thinking they could ride a bike intoxicated on a pub crawl.
TX does not have a bike license.Amanda
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02-11-2009, 11:05 AM #5
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Hi, Originally Posted by uforgot
yes, in the past Switzerland had a bike license, ok, probably not on a race bike, but commuter ones. The bike license was also an insurance. Last I was home in Germany, a friend of mine biked home form a night out, totaly drunk and biked. The police stoped him and he had to pay a big fine.
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03-25-2009, 01:11 PM #6
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Here in California, bicycles are considered vehicles. And since all vehicle code applies to cyclists (stop at stop sign, no wrong-way driving/riding...) if you are stopped and found intoxicated, you WILL be arrested for DUI. If you are walking with a bike, you can not be cited for DUI but you can get cited for public drunkeness. The police has to see you riding while intoxicated.
Speaking of which, my partner and I was almost run over by an idiot girl who could barely control her beach cruiser going the wrong way on a sidewalk. no helmet, flip flop, ipod sticking out of her ear... And there is a prominent road sign No bicycles on side walk HBMC 19-26(a).
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