http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/bike/regulations.shtm
My question is where was your headlight? If you are riding at night without a headlight and you "damage" yourself or your bike then that is your fault. Especially when you know the road is in disrepair. Accept the responsibility. Also, if you want to do something do what others have suggested, don't just complain here and expect things to change overnight. Before you go off on me, I ride and race on the bike. I've ridden in major cities around the US including St. Louis and DC both during the day and night. I've also ridden on the boardwalk in AP and don't see the appeal. In summary, do what you want, just realize there are consequences to your actions. You make the choices in your life so take responsibility for them. vinny --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to ride my bike. > I'd like to ride my bike on the boardwalk at 11 pm. > Thats all i'd like to do, but I can't. And people apparently don't want me to be able to do > so, because they don't think bikes and people mix at 11 pm. > > I figured i'd change the title of this topic in order to force people to understand what i'm > asking, because everybody is focusing on the daylight hours, where I agreed over and over > that bikes should be banned on the boardwalk. At no time in my posting did I ask to be > able to ride during the day. In repeat... I agreed time and time again that biking should be > restricted during the beach going hours. It was always at night, around 11 pm. I get the > feeling that people are only reading the title of the topic, and merely skimming across the > rest of the thread. > > Last night, I went for a ride at 10:30 pm. It was a beautiful night. I didn't ride on the > boardwalk. Instead, I stuck to Ocean Ave. > The streetlights on Ocean Ave. were off, so I couldn't see any of the potholes or other > things that may damage me or my bike. > The boardwalk was deserted. I can assure you of that, because I walked my bike to the > boardwalk and sat on a bench for awhile to see how many people I might be endangering > at that hour. There we're literally no people there. Perhaps I saw one in the distance > coming out of Convention Hall. Maybe one or two more sitting quitely on the benches like > I was. > > So, I get back on my bike, and ride on Ocean Ave, in the dark, fending off potholes and the > handful of cars cruising what was once the Circuit. Smelling their exhaust in the cool night > air. > > Sounds like a good time, huh? > > So I ask you this, at 11 pm when I'd like to ride, do the rules still apply that say bikes and > pedestrians don't exist? When there are no pedestrians? Isn't my well being affected when I > have to ride on a dark bumpy unsafe road? To be honest, I'd feel much safer riding on the > well lit empty boardwalk. > > If any of you think that there's a clash between pedestrians and cyclists at 11 pm, i'm sorry > to say you are quite wrong, unless this is the 6th Sense and i'm endangering the afterlives > of the ghosts of boardwalkers past. > > But this isn't the 6th Sense, and I don't see dead people. I see an empty, beautiful, well lit > boardwalk that I love, where i'm not allowed to ride. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/Y2tolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
