Cycling licenses

In article ,
Mark Shroyer writes:
In article ,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

The people who promote such ideas are just mean-spirited meanies.

OT, but I find it amusing how, amidst all the intensely cruel and vulgar
insults in circulation on the Internet, they are the the simplest and
most childlike ones that sound the most incisive of them all.

Anyway, I agree entirely.

Thanks. (I think.)


cheers, & enjoy Spring riding weather,
Tom

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In article ,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

In article ,
Mark Shroyer writes:
In article ,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

The people who promote such ideas are just mean-spirited meanies.

OT, but I find it amusing how, amidst all the intensely cruel and vulgar
insults in circulation on the Internet, they are the the simplest and
most childlike ones that sound the most incisive of them all.

Anyway, I agree entirely.

Thanks. (I think.)


cheers, & enjoy Spring riding weather,
Tom


(No, that wasn't some bizarre veiled insult; just a bizarre, sleep
deprived observation )

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See:

http://tinylink.com/?7R5EPHZCQZ

wrote:
Hello,

Do you guys think the government will, someday, license bikes the way
they do with automobiles?

If so, what do you think thier reasons would be?

Cullen

Look at

http://oferta.deremate.cl/id=1765287...o-1976-antigua






wrote:
Hello,

Do you guys think the government will, someday, license bikes the way
they do with automobiles?

If so, what do you think thier reasons would be?

Cullen

This is a complet account of bicycle taxes in France:

http://plaque.free.fr/f_v.html

wrote:
Hello,

Do you guys think the government will, someday, license bikes the way
they do with automobiles?

If so, what do you think thier reasons would be?

Cullen

Dutch licenses:

http://plaque.free.fr/eur/nl/nl_v.html

wrote:
Hello,

Do you guys think the government will, someday, license bikes the way
they do with automobiles?

If so, what do you think thier reasons would be?

Cullen

wrote in message
...
Hello,

Do you guys think the government will, someday, license bikes the
way
they do with automobiles?

There are, and always have been, lots of schemes in the USA for
liciencing bikes. When I lived in Washington DC I counted 13
different schemes to cover the whole Metropolitan Area, and I
probably missed one or two. The winning location was Takoma Park,
Md, where everyone was subject to three schemes, state, county and
city. This amounted to four schmes in total, Takoma Park straddling
two counties. Later the state scheme was abolished, on the grounds
of general uselessness. Reciprocity between the schemes seemed to
vary, although nobody ever really knew what it was anywhere.

If so, what do you think thier reasons would be?

Bike theft was the usual trigger: "We've got to do something. This
is something, so we've got to do it".

The main actual use of such schemes is to help police to keep poor
black teenagers out of affluent white suburbs.

Jeremy Parker

wrote:
Hello,

Do you guys think the government will, someday, license bikes the way
they do with automobiles?

If so, what do you think thier reasons would be?

Cullen

California allows cities to require that bicycles be licensed to ride
them within city limits -- in my experience, everybody ignores the
requirements.

39001. (a) The department shall procure and distribute bicycle license
indicia and registration forms to all counties and cities which have
adopted a bicycle licensing ordinance or resolution. Those counties and
cities shall issue the indicia and registration form to the owner of any
new bicycle, and may, upon request of the owner, issue an indicia and
registration form to the owner of any bicycle which complies with
Section 39007.
[...]
39002. (a) A city or county, which adopts a bicycle licensing ordinance
or resolution, may provide in the ordinance or resolution that no
resident shall operate any bicycle, as specified in the ordinance, on
any street, road, highway, or other public property within the
jurisdiction of the city or county, as the case may be, unless the
bicycle is licensed in accordance with this division.

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Work and recreation are not often effected at the same time.
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