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What some maybe missing (or avoiding thinking about) is that enforcement of the "requirement" that bikes have a brake or some mechanical devise used to slow or stop a bikes forward motion (for most of us) may be nothing more than narrowing an existing gap twix motor vehicles, and what some of us call bicycles
Stop reading here if you want to, no offense will be taken, the following is just STD drivel anyweigh
There are some out there who try and find exceptions to common sense thingies vis a vis roads and highweighs and what traffics upon them
Denominating a "chain" as part of a braking system seems pretty dang silly to moi
I rather doubt that Bubba will have much luck in slowing his 1971 *pu (forward motion not necessarily assumed) when the efficiency of the OEM installed brake system lessens (or some other mechanical devise used to slow or stop the vehicle's forward motion) by popping the shift lever into R
By the same token, while it is fun to talk about it, it really don't think that back pedaling will work all that well, incipient panic factored in and awl
I wood not be surprised if Bubba ended up with a broken drive shaft or u joint and "Dude" a broken chain, his travel joint may or knot stay in his pocket
Of course Bubba can ameliorate his stopping burden by replacing his tool box contents with the new Ti Craftsman octadrive sockets and wrenches and drinking the beer in the cooler (those cheap foam juans don't weigh much) and throwing the cans out
I am reluctant to second guess anyjuan on this butt what may be missing is taking a look at the bike sans rider and asking where the brake is
And there may be some ostensibly experienced cyclists who may be like wise confused
I think an average prosecutor could stick this case up most cyclist's nose
A prosecutor might have shown a jury (assuming a bit of course) some bikes with caliper/cantis, disc, internal hub, etc brakes
I guess that same might have been done in cross examining bike rider if she took the stand
I suppose that exposure to ticketing of bicyclists for any numbre of reaons does vary from place to place butt I wager that not very many write ups are done, anywhere, for anything, for the reason that most "cops" have better criminal items to attend to, I sure a hell hope they do!
CD
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