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Comment by Jeffrey M on February 2, 2011 at 1:51pm

Does anyone know of a group or an event based in Ontario, Canada that involves cycling and diabetes? I can't seem to find one as they are all in the US.

Comment by miketosh on January 13, 2011 at 12:30pm

The truth comes out:

Newark assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker had originally indicated she wanted to put the $10 plates on bikes in part because senior citizens complained to her about bike-riding kids, some of whom would try to knock them down.

From: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/01/13/plan-to-require-bicycle...

Comment by Diego on January 12, 2011 at 6:15am

Will Vanity Plates be available? I cant imagine putting a hard plate on my road bike.

Comment by miketosh on January 12, 2011 at 6:05am

Text below, sounds like a hard plate, similar to motorcycles. Nothing will silence the bike-haters.

4. At the time of issuance of the registration of the bicycle, the chief administrator shall also issue to the registrant, at no additional cost, a bicycle license plate to be attached to the bicycle by the registrant. Each plate shall contain a clearly visible license number to be assigned by the chief administrator and shall bear the insignia "BICYCLE" in clear lettering. The license plate number shall be contained on the certificate of registration.

Comment by Greg on January 11, 2011 at 8:50pm

If licensing a bike for $5 or whatever will silence the bike-haters, who think cyclists are scofflaws and freeloaders (because they don't understand how roads are funded) then I'm wiling to do it. I haven't read the NJ law but it will probably be just a sticker on the seat tube. It's stupid and couldn't even fund the expense to run a bike-licensing program, but it's symbolic and that counts for something with these car-driving fools.

Comment by Redvette on January 11, 2011 at 12:35pm

Oh that is what I want a goofy flapping plate on my bike. I do everything to reduce wind resistance and weight and they want a plate on my bike. I don't thik so. Don't they have better things to do than think up stupid ideas like this. Gee officer it must have blown off. I don't know where it is. This is rediculous.

Comment by miketosh on January 11, 2011 at 12:15pm

@Mark, if this law passes, it is kids bikes too. My daughter has 2, a 12" and a 16". They would both need license plates.

it's unenforceable and an additional burden on the already overloaded MVC. Like our helmet law, it is never enforced.

Comment by Mark on January 11, 2011 at 12:01pm

So now every NJ resident cyclist will have to place license plates on their bikes now too. This is just utterly ridiculous.

Comment by Andy on January 11, 2011 at 11:44am

We have a "mandatory" bike registration here. It only costs $0.50, but no one does it, and it's never been enforced. The police were interested in it mostly to help get stolen or unattended-for-weeks bikes back to their owners, since they end up with about 100 bikes a year and auction the ones off that were never claimed.

I see these schemes on cycling blogs all the time. People who never bike get fed up with cyclists using the roads without paying road tax, and think that if we had registration and plates that we would be more accountable. What they forget is that nearly everyone biking also has a car and is already paying their portion with property taxes, which funds local roads significantly more than gas taxes. Gas taxes usually only go towards funding interstates, so charging a cyclist to fund an interstate seems like a really bad plan. Bikes also do close to zero damage, cause few accidents which are mostly very minor, and don't deteriorate the roads.

Comment by miketosh on January 11, 2011 at 11:29am

The bill appears to be a standalone plan, and doesn't call out anything more than just tracking who has a bike and how much they paid in sales tax for it.

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