Hey Jersey what up??

[megale3]

Banning Quick release wheels?

http://www.bicycleretailer.com/bicycleretailer/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003599447


Confused in Portland

[RaffCycles]

Cyclists in NJ, give your state senators and representatives a quick release with your vote.

[megale3]

Cyclists in NJ, give your state senators and representatives a quick release with your vote.
LOL PMP ROF

[SpinBob]

Thanks for the heads up. I hadn't heard about this. Since the bill seems to be geared toward sales, rather than possesion or use, it would be tougher for bike stores, than for bikers. I will contact my state senator today.

[megale3]

Thanks for the heads up. I hadn't heard about this. Since the bill seems to be geared toward sales, rather than possesion or use, it would be tougher for bike stores, than for bikers. I will contact my state senator today.
Alot of wild things are happening just in the manufacturing industry of bicycle parts. Take for instance the fight between FSA and Cane Creek could create a huge supply problem for integrated headsets on many of the production bikes from Cannondale to Specialized that uses them.
Mike

[lizardbiker]

If you're not smart enough to tighten your quick releases before riding, you shouldn't be riding. Next will they make it illegal to own bikes with quick releases? Will they raid our houses and confiscate them? REVOLUTION!!!!! They can have my Cannondales with quick release wheels when they pry them from my cold dead hands!!! And then I'll haunt them!!!
I heard some people trip over their shoelaces when they come untied prematurely without a secondary shoe retention device. Maybe we should push for a law banning shoe laces!!!!

[megale3]

If you're not smart enough to tighten your quick releases before riding, you shouldn't be riding. Next will they make it illegal to own bikes with quick releases? Will they raid our houses and confiscate them? REVOLUTION!!!!! They can have my Cannondales with quick release wheels when they pry them from my cold dead hands!!! And then I'll haunt them!!!
I heard some people trip over their shoelaces when they come untied prematurely without a secondary shoe retention device. Maybe we should push for a law banning shoe laces!!!!


Thing is you have to go look at what sort of CARP is going in to those bills in your state. There is good, like the one that I ahve been posting about ,and then there is this stuff. Man it like awar there and your interests are at stake.
M

[NJspin]

New Jersey Assembly Bill No. 2686 would make it illegal to sell any bicycle –including ADULT bicycles – with current quick releases;
It is wrongly promoted as being directed only to children’s bicycles;
This will have an immediate, significant, adverse impact on:
New Jersey Bicycle consumers;
New Jersey Bicycle dealers.
None of the bicycles currently on the market could meet the standard in Assembly Bill 2686;
This would IMMEDIATELY shut down the bicycle retail business in New Jersey ;
The Bill would require a quick release retention system – on adult bikes -- that:
Works AUTOMATICALLY
ALWAYS retains the wheel
There is no commercially available system that meets this impossible standard;
The Quick Release has been in use for over 50 years;
On today’s commercial bicycles, bikes with Quick Releases also come with redundant retention;
A properly used Quick Release is SAFER than a bicycle with a bolted axle;
Assembly Bill 2686 is ill advised because:
It is not directed only at Children’s bikes;
It will shut down the New Jersey Bicycle business;
It will be pre-empted by Federal Law that already regulates bicycles quick releases.

[lizardbiker]

Maybe we should teach the New Jersey politicians how to follow the speed limit in cars and use seat belts before they tackle the ever so dangerous bicycle quick release system.

[cfoam4me]

LMAO-way to go Liz!

[BFSpin]

Maybe we should teach the New Jersey politicians how to follow the speed limit in cars and use seat belts before they tackle the ever so dangerous bicycle quick release system.

Oooooooo SNNNAP!

Ok, Jersey people - time to flood your representatives' mail, phone calls, emails etc. Then figure out what lobby is pushing for this legislation . . . and strengthen the opposite position. There's always something going on behind what you see . . .

Beth

[SpinBob]

Just sent my state Senator and Assembly representatives an email urging them to vote against this bill. They are all Republicans, so I told them the bill was going hurt state bike retailers without doing anything to increase bike safety. Hopefully that will get their attention.

[lizardbiker]

I guess the bike dealers could get around the laws the same way gun dealers do (selling illegal guns that are converted to a legal status, then selling the conversion kits to restore the gun to its less than legal condition). Sell the bike with bolted on wheels, then sell the quick release skewer as something else and let the purchaser retrofit the bike. It will be a sad pathetic day if it comes to that.

[RaffCycles]

I guess the bike dealers could get around the laws the same way gun dealers do (selling illegal guns that are converted to a legal status, then selling the conversion kits to restore the gun to its less than legal condition). Sell the bike with bolted on wheels, then sell the quick release skewer as something else and let the purchaser retrofit the bike. It will be a sad pathetic day if it comes to that.

Better yet. Sell the bike frame and components without the wheels and offer the wheels as an option.

[SpinBob]

Isn't that like selling a car with no tires? Would you then go to another state to buy a quick release system?

[lizardbiker]

Isn't that like selling a car with no tires? Would you then go to another state to buy a quick release system?
And sign an affidavit swearing that you won't use them in the state of New Jersey.

[SpinBob]

I told the business editor of, the paper I work at, about this bill and we did a story on it in Wednesday's paper. One of the three sponsors of the bill is an assembly woman who represents our circulation area says the language should be altered to apply only to kids' bikes and is trying to change it.

Here's a link to the story:
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk4NDImZmdi ZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcxNTkwMzQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZU VFeXkyMg==