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noco · #11 (**permalink**) 11-07-2009, 02:32 AM

nice vid of using the cross walk button but you rode up on the sidewalk....ill probably lose when i bring this to court but oh well this is principle...its the first time ive been pulled over in this town and at least i can set the pressatence of being a pain in the ass...ive done this befor in other towns and after my first ticket all i got was warnings...and that idea of taking a right then turning around is technically an illegal left turn...may have been a cheaper ticket though

linnix13 · #12 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by noco

nice vid of using the cross walk button but you rode up on the sidewalk....ill probably lose when i bring this to court but oh well this is principle...its the first time ive been pulled over in this town and at least i can set the pressatence of being a pain in the ass...ive done this befor in other towns and after my first ticket all i got was warnings...and that idea of taking a right then turning around is technically an illegal left turn...may have been a cheaper ticket though

pull the clutch in when you go on the sidewalk, once the clutch is dissenaged your a bicycle and its 100 legal

noco · #13 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 02:52 PM

but riding a bike on a sidewalk is illegal and i know that the city has been cracking down on that for years...fort collins is probably the most bike friendly town in the country...we have a 5% bicycle commuter rate...which is awsome...i think the city is trying to make up from the loss of auto revenue...

bairdco · #14 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 03:14 PM

if i'm the only one at a light, i roll up on the sidewalk and push the button. i did it the other day right in front of a cop who was directly across from me, in the left turn lane.

he didn't even give me a second glance. if he thought about it, he probably would rather have me on the sidewalk for 10 seconds, instead of running a light.

**Bikeguy Joe** · #15 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 04:55 PM

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pull the clutch in when you go on the sidewalk, once the clutch is dissenaged your a bicycle and its 100 legal

CAUTION- That is absolutely NOT sound legal advice!

Blakenstein · #16 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 05:40 PM

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so there i was sitting at a red light...the light was not changing due to it being a magnetically triggered light...so i looked both ways and went.................next thing i knew ther were flashing blues behind me...so i moved over in the bike lane farther an kept riding...looking back about 2 blocks later i realized that i was getting pulled over....

the cop asked me a million questions about the bike...i just kept telling him it was less than 50cc...then 2 more cars showed up...one cop cuffed me and searched me...at this point i was trying to remember if i had any unpaid parking tickets....well they took off the cuffs and wrote me a 100dollar ticket and sent me on my way....

i was pissed...i walked my bike away using even the cross walks(residential neighbor hood) so the gestapo wouldnt get me again...i stopped down the bar for a cold one and to vent...when i got there i found 2 other pissed off bicyclist who just got 100 dollar tickets rolling residential stop signs...WTF

i know the cities are hurting for money but do they really need to rape us

my plan now is to find out how many stop lights are in town and how many are magnetically triggered...then some late night im gonna ride too these lights and call the police to come help me get through them....what im trying to do with this is have a dispatch record of lights not working for bikes...i can afford the ticket but principle is compelling me to bring this into court...

what do you guys think???

Don't feel too bad , because I just finished paying a $250.oo fine for Jay walking .At the time I received the ticket , I took the numbers from J-walking ticket and played them on the lottery immediately following the ticket. Well, guess what happened; the last for numbers on the lottery ticket were 8937 and the last numbers on the J-walking ticket were 893Z when I went to pay ticket I pointed this out and told them that their lottery is a fraud. They pretended that they did not even hear me however the people standing in line sure did. I thought that fraud was a federal offence. Those are not the only tickets I have that they messed with. I also have horse race names from 1964 that predict everything that happened up here. Now they keep the micro film at the library behind lock and key so they can get a good look at anyone that comes to look at them.

Blakenstein · #17 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 07:09 PM

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Don't feel too bad , because I just finished paying a $250.oo fine for Jay walking .At the time I received the ticket , I took the numbers from J-walking ticket and played them on the lottery immediately following the ticket. Well, guess what happened; the last for numbers on the lottery ticket were 8937 and the last numbers on the J-walking ticket were 893Z when I went to pay ticket I pointed this out and told them that their lottery is a fraud. They pretended that they did not even hear me however the people standing in line sure did. I thought that fraud was a federal offence. Those are not the only tickets I have that they messed with. I also have horse race names from 1964 that predict everything that happened up here. Now they keep the micro film at the library behind lock and key so they can get a good look at anyone that comes to look at them.

they owe me for every lottery i've ever played if only i could find some way to take that out of their hides.

noco · #18 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 08:01 PM

250 for j walking....wow....sorry to hear this....im a hardened motorbiker now and you sound like a hardened pedestrian.... the cities are bankrupt and they are gonna rape us to pay thier debts

Blakenstein · #19 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 08:17 PM

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250 for j walking....wow....sorry to hear this....im a hardened motorbiker now and you sound like a hardened pedestrian.... the cities are bankrupt and they are gonna rape us to pay thier debts

I know but what about lotto ticket number 8937 and J-walking ticket -893Z; this is not the first time they know what the winning numbers will be and they are dictating what numbers will be on the ticket. thats big time fraud .who do they think they are?? Ive got a lot more than this. for 32 years i never knew anything;what about all the lotteries i played in those years; even when i won,they made sure i would loose . alot of that money i spent on tickets i worked very hard for. Its obvious that when i bought the ticket,they put the number on it through the computer system, and they knew i was purchasing that ticket at the exact second, and where i was purchasing it from . now u know where they're getting all their money.

robin · #20 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 09:41 PM

Today i met our head bylaw officer for Penticton--i told him i had a gas powered bicycle--he said our rules say if its 49cc and you have a drivers license you are doing the speed limit and you are not on the sidewalk then you are legal. No mention of signal lights or anything. We are 30,000 population.