Vancouver cycling laws (linked article)

This has to be a joke!

Ha ha ha! I laughed...good one!

This was all over the news a couple of months ago. There were lots of police out giving tickets. All of the people that I know got warnings and not fines. They were told that they would be fined next month (I think that was July), but only got warnings in (I think) June.

I know people who got warnings for:

i- standing out of the saddle

ii- no reflectors or lights

iii- no bell

iv- hmm, there was one more, I can't remember it.

Later on, it was clarified that astride the saddle means that a foot on each side, not that you had to be sitting, but still I know people who got the warning for standing. Also, the lights I think is 30 minutes before dusk and after dawn, but I know people who got the warning at 5:00pm. The bell thing is only a law in Vancouver, not in any other city.

Of all of the people I know that got warnings, not one of them changed a thing. I think that you could fight anything but the bell.

The Province uses the most inflammatory language too. I remember them saying that cyclists must ride as far to the right as possible, but the actual language of the law is as far as practical. Defintiely two different things and to the average driver reading the Province they take what they say to be right. I did notice more drivers yelling on me to ride to the right or on the sidewalk after that article hit the papers.

Haz, you said you were not going to get drunk before this race!

Okay, it worked. I removed my signature.