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06-27-06 | 06:37 AM

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capejohn

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From: Fairhaven, Massachusetts

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Go to court and deny everything.

06-27-06 | 07:04 AM

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Old Dirt Hill

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From: I lost my legs

I realize the thread is forever old, but can the OP provide an update as to what ended up happening?

06-27-06 | 10:06 AM

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ghettocruiser

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Word. Now that this thread has been aged like a fine wine, I'm curious as to what eventually happened to darkmother's case on this one.

He probably did a write-up on his results in *TORONTO FIXED*, but I never have the attention span to look through the thousands of pages of that thread to find out. Especially since I likes my coasting...

06-27-06 | 12:26 PM

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Dickseacup

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Quote:

Originally Posted by keayne

...how is one supposed to keep both hands on the hand bars and signal at the same time??

1. Bicycle - unable to keep both hands on handlebars 15(2) $85.00
2. Fail to signal for tum 142(1) $90.00
3. Fail to signal lane change 141(2) $90.00
4. Fail to signal stop 141(8) $90.00
...

IANAL, but I think 'unable to keep' is the key to that apparent contradiction. It doesn't say, '...failure to keep...' I would imagine that if you were cycling home from the corner market with a big bag of groceries in one arm, that might qualify as 'unable to keep both hands on handlebars,' as both hands are not free. If you have both hands are free, yet one happens to be serving as a signal semaphore, you are still able to have both hands on the handlebars, yet you have a (valid, safety?) reason not to at that moment.