🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:44:00 -0700, DiscoDuck wrote:

> x-no-archive:
> On Jul 13, 9:16 pm, m...@home.spamsucks.ca (Kir�ly) wrote:
>> _ <jtayNOSPAM...@hfdontsendmespamx.andara.com> wrote:
>>> You also have to wear a helmet; and fixed-gear, ordinary, and uni-cycles
>>> are not allowed on the roads.
>>
>> You are right about the helmet (but enforcement is not consistently
>> applied) but dead wrong about the others.  All the cycles you mention are
>> permitted on BC highways.
> 
> enforcement of the helmet law is strictly contingent on the officers
> personal feelings.  In Victoria, most officers leave you alone if you
> are not hurting anyone.  However a few bad eggs give the rest a bad
> name.  In Vancouver I saw only one ticket issued-ever.

That's one of the unforseen bad things about helmet laws.  Forseen is that
they reduce cycling, and have zero or negative effect on head injuries; but
who would have thought that the enforcement would be capricious, based on
whether the officer was having a bad day, or didn't like cyclists as a
group, or some other non-legal reason?