| Re: logistics associated with starting a new riding group?
On Feb 6, 5:57 pm, Bill Baka <b...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Prisoner at War wrote:
> > Legal issues are probably the biggest consideration. Like, what if
> > someone gets hurt and so forth. You may not be an official club, but
> > I'd worry about any laws, local or otherwise, which may beg to differ
> > with you on that! I know it sounds ridiculous, but...maybe it's
> > 'cause I'm in New York, with half the world's lawyers here....
>
> Don't draft any paperwork that calls you a "club". Then you are just a
> group of cyclists that happen to be riding together.
> That should make you lawyer-proof.
I'm not sure about that. For example, look at so-called "common law
marriages"...there's no paperwork saying "husband and wife" but if
they split the guy's still liable to pay child-support for her kids
that she already had previous to their relationship!
> Having each other's phone numbers and informally riding together doesn't
> make a club. You could have a separate '5s' for cycling activities. The
> '5s' is for cell phones as seen on television (over and over).
Dude, this is liberal NYC, and the City wants bicyclists numbering
more than twenty (or whatever the exact number is) to apply for a
parade permit first. Wedding and funeral processions in cars are all
right, but bicyclists they want to crack down on....
I'm just saying, you never know...sometimes the law thinks in the "if
it looks like duck and walks like a duck" frame-of-mind...if folks
meeting regularly to ride can look to a casual observer to be a bike
club, the law may decide that for all practical intents and purposes
they are! I hope not, of course, but you hear about crazy lawyer-****
in the news all the time....
> Bill Baka
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