Seriously, these laws are NOT enforced, as you will very quickly discover when you see cyclists whose bicycles flagrantly do not meet the requirements toddling right past police cars and not raising a single eyebrow. I would say that of all the cyclists I pass at night, less than 20% have lights on. When you buy a bike here, the chances are it will be fitted with white reflectors on the spokes and not the regulation orange and red. Bike shops will be puzzled when you request they swap-out your white ones for the proper colours.
Despite all that, I keep my own bike within regulations. I am not afraid of the police stopping me and fining me, as I said they do not enforce these regulations. I am afraid of the insurance company lawyers who try to get their murdering clients off the hook by demonstrating that the poor cyclist they ran-over didn't have a correctly equipped bicycle, and was therefore less visible.
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Date: 2008-07-13 01:43 am (UTC)Despite all that, I keep my own bike within regulations. I am not afraid of the police stopping me and fining me, as I said they do not enforce these regulations. I am afraid of the insurance company lawyers who try to get their murdering clients off the hook by demonstrating that the poor cyclist they ran-over didn't have a correctly equipped bicycle, and was therefore less visible.