Drivers failing to use their turn signals are a pain and worse.

I know the cyclist have rights and all that, but after years of observations I'm thinking a lot of them are riding a bike mainly because they weren't able to pass a drivers test. The ones that are the worst are those recumbent things.
 
Here's a question for you bikers. Does a bike have to meet any kind of DOT regulations to be used on a road or hwy?

I ask because I can't ride my ATV on the road, due to DOT regs, and I can keep up with traffic! Additionally, in order to ride a motorcycle they have to have proper signaling devices, and headlamps, with DOT tires. Just wondering.

I realize bikes have a right to be on the road, but why take the chance? And people think I'm crazy taking my 240da to the Bahamas! haha
 
islandhopper00 said:
Here's a question for you bikers. Does a bike have to meet any kind of DOT regulations to be used on a road or hwy?

I ask because I can't ride my ATV on the road, due to DOT regs, and I can keep up with traffic! Additionally, in order to ride a motorcycle they have to have proper signaling devices, and headlamps, with DOT tires. Just wondering.

I realize bikes have a right to be on the road, but why take the chance? And people think I'm crazy taking my 240da to the Bahamas! haha
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Bikes were on the paved roads before any other vehicle as paved roads were originally built for them, we just share it with you. There are no DOT regulations for bycycles I am aware of. Bikes are required to have lighting after dark. You cannot use your ATV on road because politicians don't want you too haha.

MM
 
islandhopper00 said:
Here's a question for you bikers. Does a bike have to meet any kind of DOT regulations to be used on a road or hwy?

I ask because I can't ride my ATV on the road, due to DOT regs, and I can keep up with traffic! Additionally, in order to ride a motorcycle they have to have proper signaling devices, and headlamps, with DOT tires. Just wondering.

I realize bikes have a right to be on the road, but why take the chance? And people think I'm crazy taking my 240da to the Bahamas! haha
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If you mean turn signal lites that is not so.
 
Yea, I share the road and try to coutreous. I just see so many people drive 55mph past a bike within like 2ft of them. That would scare the crap out of me!

Mike, I think you are very right about the politicians. Woody I guess I'm showing my ignorance, except I've gotten the ticket for removing the turn signals from my Suzuki.
 
A bicycle is allowed full use of the road but I don’t think the wording “just like a car“ should follow that comment. I believe you’ll find wording in bicycle laws that also recognize the difference between the two. Here’s an example in WI law, the subject is riding 2 abreast,

“Persons riding bicycles or electric personal assistive mobility devices upon a roadway may ride 2 abreast if such operation does not impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic. Bicycle or electric personal assistive mobility device operators riding 2 abreast on a 2-lane or more roadway shall ride within a single lane.”

Without saying it, it is obvious the law requires bicycles be single file the rest of the time, how ever much that may be. WI recently modified it’s passing rules. It allows crossing the solid yellow line(normally no passing) in order to get around vehicles that are ‘impeding the normal and reasonable movement of traffic‘….bicycles and farm equipment are two big examples. Some critics feel it’s a step backward for highway safety. I think that’s what everyone did anyway and now it’s legal.
 
islandhopper00 said:
Woody I guess I'm showing my ignorance, except I've gotten the ticket for removing the turn signals from my Suzuki.
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Ihopper, maybe this is an example of so many laws that those enforcing them can’t know or understand them all. Similar things have gone on in WI too. I did a look on NC and here’s what I found…not required. If you got a ticket for not having them this makes things clear as mud.

North Carolina General Statutes 20-125.1 Directional Signals, Note (d) which states nothing in the section applies to motorcycles
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/Statutes/StatutesTOC.pl?Chapter=0020

North Carolina Motorcyclist Education Foundation
http://msf-usa.org/downloads/Equipment_Chart_2011-MSFlogo.pdf

AMA (American Motorcyclist Association)
http://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/asp/amaccess/laws/result.asp?state=nc
 
Whoa, that's alot of legal stuff! The ticket I got was for improper equipment. Who knows what is right and wrong anymore. Of course I didn't fight it, I just paid it.

Kinda like the wake zone violation I got in Charleston SC. The first question out of the officers mouth was, "I see your not from Charleston, are you?" I knew right then I was getting a ticket, even though I was the third boat in a line of many others all going the same speed. 1000rpm, with a tidal current running about 2-3 knots. Yep, didn't fight that one either, just paid it. I didn't want to take a day off work, drive 4 hours to go to court, and have a judge still charge me with the violation.

Mike 2ft, 3 ft, not much difference to me. 6ft would be too close! haha
 
After moving to North Carolina from Calif (a long time ago), I complained to my father in-law that, "No one in NC uses their turn signal". He replied in his usual Southern drawl, "Tim, if you see a car with it's turn signal on, it was on when he bought the car!"
 
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