🚀 go-pugleaf

_ wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:44:00 -0700, DiscoDuck wrote:
> 
> > x-no-archive:
> > On Jul 13, 9:16 pm, m...@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) 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.

No laws are applied consistently.  They are always at the discretion of
the government,
law enforcement policies and ultimately the police officer at the end of
the line. 


> >
> > 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?