>>1460561Some places do state that cyclists have to follow all the same laws of the road as motor vehicles and the police WILL stop you if they catch you doing it. This happens in cyclist-heavy cities more often because the police have to be more familiar with such parts of the code, and they usually have more officers that aren't patrolling in a way that makes them inconvenient to stop.
As well, near the ends of the month when the cops have more officers stationed around to catch people due to needing to fill quotas, cyclists are easy to stop when they blow lights or don't signal at intersections.
It's a lot harder to tell if a cyclist is intoxicated from afar, but it can get layered on if they're drunk when stopped for causing obvious traffic violations. Cops in certain areas can get familiar with what the local cyclists look like.
It's all tradeoffs anon.
>>1460645Yea cyclists in cities don't even use the bike paths half the time because weaving thru congested traffic is faster and people park in them lmao
>>1460692Around here the "road tax" is a gas tax. If you ride a moped (NOT a vespa, an engine'd bicycle) you pay this tax too, but mopeds also have a shitload more restrictions than normal bikes in my neck of the woods.
>>1460708That's not why. A lot of the laws on the books were put into place before bicycle cavalry was an obsolete military idea. Your local code should have an indicator of when a particular law was signed in.
