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From: Tim Moran on 1 Feb 2008 04:42
In article <47a182ca$0$22095$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au>,
jt(a)techniciansyndrome.org.invalid says...
> "bicycle" means a vehicle with 1 or more wheels that is built to be propelled
> by human power through a belt, chain or gears (whether or not it has an
> auxiliary motor), and:
>
So a shaft drive bicycle isn't really a bicycle then.
--
t

A sufficiently advanced incompetance is indestinguishable from malice
From: Matt Palmer on 1 Feb 2008 05:14
Tim Moran is of the opinion:
> In article <47a182ca$0$22095$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au>,
> jt(a)techniciansyndrome.org.invalid says...
>> "bicycle" means a vehicle with 1 or more wheels that is built to be propelled
>> by human power through a belt, chain or gears (whether or not it has an
>> auxiliary motor), and:
>>
> So a shaft drive bicycle isn't really a bicycle then.

No, because you can't wheelie it.

- Matt
From: Peter Cremasco on 1 Feb 2008 06:17
Tim Moran wrote:
> In article <47a182ca$0$22095$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au>,
> jt(a)techniciansyndrome.org.invalid says...
>> "bicycle" means a vehicle with 1 or more wheels that is built to be propelled
>> by human power through a belt, chain or gears (whether or not it has an
>> auxiliary motor), and:
>>
> So a shaft drive bicycle isn't really a bicycle then.

Shaft would qualify as being driven by gears.
From: Nev.. on 1 Feb 2008 07:46
John Tserkezis wrote:

>> I think this _is_ a bicycle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9V6VpoED4A
>
> Was that speed right? 200 and something? You'd be hard pressed to find
> a bike computer capable of that.

They're capable of measuring much faster than that. I had this one on
my Honda over 400kph. http://www.thisstupidurl.com/sigma1.jpg

Nev..
'07 XB12X
From: Theo Bekkers on 31 Jan 2008 15:34
CrazyCam wrote:
> John Tserkezis wrote:

>> In NSW, a unicycle is bundled in the same class as 'bicycles', and
>> thus observe the same rights and restrictions as bicycles.
>>
>> A helmet is legally required, but it's one of those very rarely if
>> at all enforced things.

> It may well be bundled in with bikes in the minds of the cops, but I'd
> bet thruppence that the folk writing the rules didn't even think of
> unicycles, and, consequently, it isn't.
>
> The folk that write rules ain't exactly smart, otherwise they'd have
> real jobs. ;-)

In WA unicycles are classed as toys, with skateboards and such, and are not
allowed on roads.

Theo


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