[rola643]

Saw this on another site and thought it was worth passing along. It bothers me that a city council, no matter how big or small, can get away with this. It obviously doesn't affect me but once a precedence is set...it's always easier to justify and replicate.

Black Hawk Bike Ban - Bicycle Colorado

[Xela]

Another article. This one's dug up dirt on the mayor.

Bikes banned in Colorado town roads

[funetical]

That's great. He pistol whips his wife and fires in anger and instead of being in jail, he's now the mayor. It seems like if he wants to keep people safe he would resign, or at least stop pistol whipping people.

[SUX VR40 Rider]

I found something interesting in one of the answers to one of the questions. That was about federal hwy funds being with held if something like this happens. Right now the FHA does not with hold funds if communities do things like this. Perhaps they should. Would anyone like to join me in contacting our law makers in Washington D.C. to change this? I will admit my motives for this are to protect Iowa cyclists form a possible upcoming attempt at another ban, but it will protect all across the country as well.

[funetical]

If you put together a letter SUX I'll contact my reps.

[SUX VR40 Rider]

Originally Posted by funetical

If you put together a letter SUX I'll contact my reps.

Will do. But I also contacted the LAB about this to see what they say. Have not received a response yet. Before I draft a letter I will wait and see. Perhaps something is already in the works and maybe a letter already exists that we can send to our law makers in Washington D.C. I'll let you know.

[TxCyclist]

We had the same thing happen just recently in a small Texas town. It amazes me who people will elect.

A local city has a Mayor that declared personnel bankruptcy a year before being elected.

[SUX VR40 Rider]

And who says there are no politics in bicycle advocacy? It may not be as sexy as some other political issues but it does have teeth.

Case in point, last year a group calling themselves the Iowa Safety Coalition tried to have bicycles banned form Iowa roadways and use the state law makers to do so. So a grou of cyclists countered, with political power by going after the spokesman and whom some believed to be the groups leader, and went after his livliehood and business. He is a firearms dealer and has a shop in an central Iowa town. Some cyclists decided to start asking law makers and those opposed to people owning guns to pass stronger gun control laws.

I don't know if this is what caused the group to back off, but they did. It was a political battle between 2 special interest groups.

[funetical]

It isn't seem right to attack a constitutional right over road way safety. I'd say the cyclists in this case were jerks.

[SUX VR40 Rider]

Originally Posted by funetical

It isn't seem right to attack a constitutional right over road way safety. I'd say the cyclists in this case were jerks.

I think the way it was viewed is if this group was going to ban cyclists rights/privilges to the roadways by changing laws they were going to do something in turn. BTW, not to start a debate on owning a gun, but the right to own firearms is not an absolute and neither are any of the other parts of the Bill of Rights. Our founding fathers never meant for them to be absolute.