Originally Posted by
rebel1916
The OP is the rarest of American breeds. A portland style "transportation cyclist". He is no doubt delighted at the thought of horrifying all the recreational athlete type cyclists. He has not given thought to the fact that the vast majority of "transportation cyclists" in the US are poverty stricken immigrants, many of questionable legal status. If his pipe dream were to be enacted into law, the primary result would be that the police would use the new law mostly as probably cause to stop these poor disadvantaged individuals.
A thread on the commuting list
http://www.bikeforums.net/commuting/...eople-say.html provides more discussion on the subject of how disconnected some posters are from what reality is for many if not most cyclists who depend on a bicycle for their daily transportation needs.