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Does Your City Require Bicycle Registration?
Advanced gumming no cigar
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?h...0&as_sdtp=&oq= General seaching brings in cycling cures. Portland suffers from extractive industry cigar coding ? All places lived in here have excellent parking ...why else live there ? |
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Does Your City Require Bicycle Registration?
jbeattie wrote:
:BTW, I personally hate taking TriMet because I always get the seat next :to the lunatic who just wet his pants, but that's just my bad luck. You should hear what the people who sit next to you have to say... -- sig 52 |
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On Friday, 23 June 2017 20:48:57 UTC-4, sms wrote:
Last Tuesday someone from our Bicycle-Pedestrian Commission approached me about our City's law requiring bicycle registration. I didn't even realize it was still on the books, but it is. How common is this? She wants us to repeal that law, even though there's no way to actually register a bicycle, and there is no enforcement. I was also successful in saving our planned "Bicycle Boulevard." Even those people that rail against bicycle infrastructure tend to like bicycle boulevards which remove most stop signs and have traffic calming to discourage a lot of vehicle traffic. The one in Palo Alto/Mountain View is extremely popular. One council member didn't want to spend the money, but he finally agreed to it. In other bicycle-related news, the San Jose, the City Council approved an 18 story apartment building. They will have an automatic car parking system and intentionally won't provide enough parking for residents in an effort to get occupants to use non-existent mass transit. And so residents can go grocery shopping they'll have one (1) bicycle cargo trailer that can be checked out. The City of Ottawa used to require bicyclists to bear a licence plate, but ended that in the early 1970s to promote cycling. When I moved onto an army base in Western Manitoba, they required that residents register their bicycles with the military police, and likely still do. I still have that plate on the bulletin board in my office. -- Andrew Chaplin |
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military bikes (was: Does Your City Require Bicycle Registration?)
When I moved onto an army base in Western
Manitoba, they required that residents register their bicycles with the military police, and likely still do. I still have that plate on the bulletin board in my office. As it happened, I just now carried upstairs a military bike! Only it is blue! Here is a photo [1]. The brand is "Kronan" ("The Crown") which hints at the military and monarchy rather than the king of bikes. The tires are huge, 28 x 1 1/2 according to the reading but inflated on the outside with a calipers it is more like 1 13/16 - this makes me wonder, 1 1/2 does refer to the inflated tire from above, not the outer or inner rim width, right? I suppose it is just an unreliable unit, even more so with inflation... Inflate to 50 psi! Just like (?) the 42-622 which actually says 50-75 psi. The bike is blue! I have seen versions of the same bike in blue, red, and green - the most common color. It is tempting to think of it as the navy, the fire department, and the army. But actually I think the navy had/have green bikes as well. These bikes were manufactured until the 80s. Of those, this is a more recent edition, I think. It has a single speed Torpedo rear wheel. The rims makes for a "v". I suppose this gives additional strength, and distances the spoke nipples from the tube. But because the rim side is so short, a rim hand brake will be difficult to mount. Actually when these bikes had hand brakes it was drum brakes, with the lever integrated just below the handle. Other than that the chain guard is mounted not from below but twice from the side (back and forth) and once from above. This makes for faster work as that downmost bolt is always the most time consuming to do. Also it seems more robust. Yes! I've seen this with registration plates. This one doesn't come with it tho. [1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/bike/military.jpg -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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On 6/24/17 2:00 PM, Mark J. wrote:
On 6/24/2017 6:35 AM, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, June 23, 2017 at 5:48:57 PM UTC-7, sms wrote: Last Tuesday someone from our Bicycle-Pedestrian Commission approached me about our City's law requiring bicycle registration. I didn't even realize it was still on the books, but it is. How common is this? She wants us to repeal that law, even though there's no way to actually register a bicycle, and there is no enforcement. I was also successful in saving our planned "Bicycle Boulevard." Even those people that rail against bicycle infrastructure tend to like bicycle boulevards which remove most stop signs and have traffic calming to discourage a lot of vehicle traffic. The one in Palo Alto/Mountain View is extremely popular. One council member didn't want to spend the money, but he finally agreed to it. In other bicycle-related news, the San Jose, the City Council approved an 18 story apartment building. They will have an automatic car parking system and intentionally won't provide enough parking for residents in an effort to get occupants to use non-existent mass transit. And so residents can go grocery shopping they'll have one (1) bicycle cargo trailer that can be checked out. We have a lot of those apartment buildings with no parking and bad mass transit. Jay, I know it's an American (human?) birthright to complain about local facilities, but surely the mass transit in Portland is vastly superior to that in most Cal. cities? (I grew up in L.A. suburbs, so I have part of a clue). Tomorrow, San Jose is likely to approve massive development along Stevens Creek Boulevard, a road with no mass transit, and no plans for any--just some very slow buses. It's going to cause even more freeway gridlock. True mass transit costs a lot of money, and developers are certainly not going to pay for it. Portland is actually pretty impressive in terms of transit. But this idea of building new buildings with insufficient parking, with the idea that that will result in people not owning cars is ludicrous. People will find somewhere to park. And even doing permit parking in adjacent neighborhoods is not a solution to prevent them from parking there, they'll just to right to the edge of the permit parking area. |
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After looking into this issue - actually I just ran
into it in a book - there was once in certain cities *mandatory* to have a registration plate on your bike. There wasn't any national policy so each city had its own rules. In Stockholm it was mandatory until 1894. The plate was most often black with with digits and sometimes a letter to indicate the city. In the same book I also read that there was once bike factories in almost every city. Lund, which is important because it houses a university, but other than that isn't important at all and is surrounded by several lager cities, in Lund there were 24 bike factories! In Gothenburg, once super-industrialized, and also the "Norwegian" part of Sweden with lots of boats and trade with the UK (as opposed to the rest with railways to trade with Germany etc.), in Gothenburg there were 64 bike factories! Unbelievable! I knew de-industrialization is a fact but not that once-industrialization was this "distributed"! 64 bike factories in a single city?! It doesn't say if all those did the entire bike or if one did the fork and so on. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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military bikes (was: Does Your City Require Bicycle Registration?)
On Sunday, June 25, 2017 at 2:37:19 PM UTC-7, Emanuel Berg wrote:
When I moved onto an army base in Western Manitoba, they required that residents register their bicycles with the military police, and likely still do. I still have that plate on the bulletin board in my office. As it happened, I just now carried upstairs a military bike! Only it is blue! Here is a photo [1]. The brand is "Kronan" ("The Crown") which hints at the military and monarchy rather than the king of bikes. The tires are huge, 28 x 1 1/2 according to the reading but inflated on the outside with a calipers it is more like 1 13/16 - this makes me wonder, 1 1/2 does refer to the inflated tire from above, not the outer or inner rim width, right? I suppose it is just an unreliable unit, even more so with inflation... Inflate to 50 psi! Just like (?) the 42-622 which actually says 50-75 psi. The bike is blue! I have seen versions of the same bike in blue, red, and green - the most common color. It is tempting to think of it as the navy, the fire department, and the army. But actually I think the navy had/have green bikes as well. These bikes were manufactured until the 80s. Of those, this is a more recent edition, I think. It has a single speed Torpedo rear wheel. The rims makes for a "v". I suppose this gives additional strength, and distances the spoke nipples from the tube. But because the rim side is so short, a rim hand brake will be difficult to mount. Actually when these bikes had hand brakes it was drum brakes, with the lever integrated just below the handle. Other than that the chain guard is mounted not from below but twice from the side (back and forth) and once from above. This makes for faster work as that downmost bolt is always the most time consuming to do. Also it seems more robust. Yes! I've seen this with registration plates. This one doesn't come with it tho. [1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/bike/military.jpg Very nice! But it is Tactical? https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/6196530974.html |
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military bikes (was: Does Your City Require Bicycle Registration?)
Doug Landau writes:
Very nice! But it is Tactical? https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/6196530974.html That looks more like a 90s MTB or "ATB" with the bars and all. The Swedish police have bikes as well but they never seem to use 'em. They went to the Netherlands to get education and also learn what bikes to use. I don't know exactly but I don't think they look like that, more modest and old-school. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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military bikes (was: Does Your City Require Bicycle Registration?)
On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 23:11:44 +0200, Emanuel Berg
wrote: Doug Landau writes: Very nice! But it is Tactical? https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/6196530974.html That looks more like a 90s MTB or "ATB" with the bars and all. The Swedish police have bikes as well but they never seem to use 'em. They went to the Netherlands to get education and also learn what bikes to use. I don't know exactly but I don't think they look like that, more modest and old-school. The Swiss Military were procuring a "military bicycle" up to, at least, 2o12 when they procured 4,100 units of the MO-12 and I also see a news article dated 2-14 stating that the Swiss Army was "Switzerland's defence department has ordered the reinstatement of the bicycle infantry for the Swiss Army in a bid to improve fitness standards among soldiers" -- Cheers, John B. |
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military bikes (was: Does Your City Require Bicycle Registration?)
John B. wrote:
The Swiss Military were procuring a "military bicycle" up to, at least, 2o12 when they procured 4,100 units of the MO-12 and I also see a news article dated 2-14 stating that the Swiss Army was "Switzerland's defence department has ordered the reinstatement of the bicycle infantry for the Swiss Army in a bid to improve fitness standards among soldiers" Switzerland? Do they even have an army? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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