[*BCM*] What about the bikes?

[Tom Revay]

At 01:22 AM 8/29/2004 -0400, Ryan L Sciaino wrote:


>I see familiar faces getting arrested in the photos and videos floating
>around on the internet and it really enrages me.

What should enrage every bicyclist in New York is what's printed on the 
NYPD flier, and that is the law in New York State whether or not the RNC is 
in-town:

BICYCLISTS MUST RIDE IN USABLE BIKE LANES OR NEAR THE CURB OR EDGE OF THE 
ROADWAY AND NOT MORE THAN TWO ABREAST.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/104538/index.php

So ... how would you like to be moving across Herald Square in this bike 
lane? --
http://tomrevay.tripod.com/projects/MassBike/BikeLanes/slide8.htm

By the law in New York, you're required to be on the turning-side of that 
left-turning truck. Cyclists in New York ought to be LYING DOWN in those 
bike lanes to make them unusable, rather than supporting them.   And if 
there's anything better than that photograph to demonstrate that cyclists 
in New York are treated as less-than anyone else on the road -- below 
truckers, car drivers, pedestrians and pigeons -- I'd like to see it.

As for what happens to your bike once it's seized ... well, I hear Andy 
Sippowitz is on a diet, and he's got a brand-new bike to help him lose weight.

...............................Tom