bicycle lanes on our public roads

i live in Michigan and more and more streets they are adding bike paths to. What got me into this is they put a bike lane from my home to where i work. i rode my bicycle and was sweating like a pig from pedaling by the time i got to work and started looking into motor bicycles. The first one i got was electric which was fun but i wanted more speed. It does around 15mph tops. Built the cruiser with the 2 stroke motor and I can get to work in about the same amount of time it takes with the truck and cost next to nothing to commute. i was wondering if other parts of the world are doing the same thing.

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Nothing like that around here.
Be careful though, if it is a true bicycle path you likely aren't supposed to be riding it with an engine running...that's how things are up here anyways. It is a very interesting idea...maybe I'll have to write a letter to the city or the province to see if we can copy that, lol.
It would be nice to ride without worrying so much about surrounding traffic.

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I live in Gainesville, which is a college town,"Go Gators" and the town is really bike friendly. I can commute just about anywhere and be in a bike lane.

thats great. i use them all the time with my motorbicycle and have had the police go by me and they just wave. i think they relize it is safer for everyone concerned even though the law says were are supposed to be on the road

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Charlottesville has a good amount of bike lanes so riding is not a problem ....Truthfully I still get a little nervous riding around cars,,,,just never know what they are gonna do!

Hi, we are welcome in bike lanes, but not on "bicycle trails" or "Nature trails". State law provides that we do ride in the Bike Lane.

On 35mph and up streets I ride bicycle lanes, and in town where they are present. On 25mph with no Bike Lane, I ride center of lane, in the drivers face for my safety.

Mike

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here in northern Ohio they have lots of bike lanes on the roads. never seen any signs or anything saying no motorized bicycles which you see on all the bicycle paths that go thru the woods and parks

Must be nice.
Here in Canada, our government is so sticky when it comes to things like that. We don't even have any laws that support bikes like these. Here they fall thru a grey area of the law, so they are allowed more or less, but we have no protection at all.
We don't have any actual "bike lanes", we do have bike paths and of course nature trails.
When it comes to riding even normal bicycles...if they have a tire size larger than 20" they are legally supposed to be ridden on the road with the traffic.
I would like to see them try and force me to make my 8 year old daughter ride on the road...someone would get hurt from that and it wouldn't be her riding on the road, lol. A lot of our laws here are simply ridiculous. Luckily, the police have enough common sense to realize things like that and allow people to ride where it is safe. I haven't tried to ride anywhere other than the road though. I go the same speed (more or less) as the surrounding traffic so I figure that is where i should be riding.
No issues with police yet...other than being asked where they can get one, lol.

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I read somwhere online that Phoenix and Tucson rank as two of the top cities in the U.S. for bicycling because we have so many bike lanes. I would say 70-80% of my riding is in a bike lane. They are everywhere here.
If you need to go somewhere here in Tucson, no need to worry, there will be a bike lane to take you right where you are going.

I found a map online that has all the bike lanes here in Tucson. There is over 600 miles of bike lanes and bike paths here.

I'm new to the motor bike scene, and I was wondering... is it street legal? is it the same rules as a bike, or does it have to be registered? and what about helmet laws?

Eric
Michigan.