Originally Posted by
John Forester
All that racing law applies to vehicles. Actually, it applies to motor vehicles, but Texas law, as in several other states, is often written as if "vehicle" means "motor vehicle". That's just bad law writing, but this has occurred in other states as well.
Anyway, and Myrridin needs to reread the following too closely law as well, that law also applies to vehicles. However, Texas does not class bicycles as vehicles, but as devices moved by human power. It's not my fault that so many bicycle advocates and cyclist denigrators are so wrapped up in their own superstitions that they cannot analyze the laws of their own state to determine their meaning.
This is a
strange thing to say. It's even
stranger being said by the person who coined "
vehicular cycling".
The TX traffic law applies to bicycles. You are excluding the applicability of the "racing" law for
no good reason. You aren't making any sense! The traffic laws don't work by having
you arbitrarily decide that vehicle operation in one case applies to bicycles and not in others!
Note that official races are not excluded because the race organizers get permits/permission to run races as exceptions to the traffic law.