BIKE: Permission to use the roadways

[Michael Zakes]

Michael-
    I don't think anything in my post says that they wouldn't have been allowed to
ride either, just more on the dynamics of having that many riders at once, trying to
stay together as a group. as has been shown with CM, Moonlight Cruise, etc, large
numbers of cyclists can ride together anytime they want to without having a police
escort. However with the JBR it allowed the group to stay together, with the police
blocking traffic at the major intersections. this eliminated the problems of running
the lights to stay together, as is often seen on these other rides. as far as being
"allowed" to ride, no-one was out there saying that they couldn't ride without
helmets, or even lights.
Michael F Zakes, prop.
Waterloo Cycles
2815 Fruth
Austin TX 78705
512.472.9253

"I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass
destruction to tell the world where they are."

Ari Fleischer, on July 9, 2003.


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> Again, I've never said that it wasn't a *good idea to have a police
> escort*.  What I was commenting on was the assertion that the riders
> *wouldn't have been ALLOWED* to ride without special permission.
>
> Every weekday, twice a day, way more motor vehicles than that clog up
> both the highways and the interior city streets.  And they don't need
> any permission to do so.
>
> -MBJ-
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Michael Zakes wrote:
>
> > given:
> >  1) the large number of riders (~1500)
> >  2) the large percentage of those being young kids and/or
> > inexperienced riders
> >  3) the need to keep them organised into a group while navigating a
> > number of busy
> > intersections
> >  4) the number of other users on the road at the same time
> > it would have been next to impossible without the police escort. the
> > two restrictions
> > ( state law mandated head and tail lights and wearing a helmet) were
> > fairly minimal.
> > Michael F Zakes, prop.
> > Waterloo Cycles
> > 2815 Fruth
> > Austin TX 78705
> > 512.472.9253
> >
> > "I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have
> > weapons of mass
> > destruction to tell the world where they are."
> >
> > Ari Fleischer, on July 9, 2003.