"It shall be an unlawful practice for any person to sell a bicycle [intended for use by children] with a front wheel diameter of 20 inches or less, which is equipped with a quick release wheel 2, exclusive of specialty adult bicycles."Folks who repeated the faulty BRaIN information include Joe Lindsey in his Boulder Report and our good friend Masiguy among others.
I'm glad Trek and others are on the ball with this and I'm hopeful this won't make it out of the state Senate commerce committee, where this bill currently sits. Jersey residents should still contact your state Senators and let them know what you think of this bill. Just please be factual.
UPDATE: Read John's comment.
BRAIN get something wrong? Nah...
ReplyDeleteI guess I should be more surprised that they didn't release this info two weeks after it happened.
The problem is that the bill language is very, very ambiguous. In two locations it seems to exclude specialty adult bicycles and then in the ammended section it seems to add them back in. Nobody at the New Jersey assembly seemed to know what the answer was. One staffer at the office of one assembly person believed that the "lawyer tabs" on the fork would be sufficient as a "secondary retention device"... but that he was totally unsure and was also seeking clarification on the point, as he'd taken countless calls about the bill that morning.
ReplyDeleteWhat we have is a proposed bill that is vague and ambiguous at best. The language that gets me was the part about retention devices that are "not yet commercially available". WTF?
At first read, it would seem that the bill excludes adult specialty bikes, but the language is self-contradicting as you read further along. Suffice it to say, it makes sense to call and urge folks in New Jersey to oppose the bill.
Is there a more recent version than this one or is this what they passed?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A3000/2686_R2.HTM
sorry. it cut off the url.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/
Bills/A3000/2686_R2.HTM
UGHH!!!!!
ReplyDeleteRead the bill again. It definitely affects adult bicycles.
Make sure you are looking at the 2nd Reprint that khal has posted.
c. (1) It shall be an unlawful practice for any person to sell a bicycle
which is equipped with a quick release wheel if:
(a) the front wheel diameter is greater than 20 inches; or (regular size bicycles)
(b) it is a specialty adult bicycle with a front wheel diameter of 20 (recumbents, folders etc.)
inches or less.
John Boyle
Advocacy Director
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia
I think John and Masiguy might be right -- I didn't have the final print of the Bill. But the final amended text makes the whole thing self-contradictory.
ReplyDeleteDid anybody notice the final amendments also describe a "secondary retention system" that seems to prefectly describe the Montague "Clix" quick release?