| Re: logistics associated with starting a new riding group?
On Feb 9, 2:59 pm, Bill Baka <b...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Prisoner at War wrote:
> > 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 not sure that isn't an apples and oranges comparison.
Yeah, but they're both fruits! So maybe if you're after Vitamin C,
then it does matter whether you have an orange or an apple, but if you
just feel like a healthy snack, then no, it doesn't matter too
much...I'm just saying that the City has some weird ideas about
cycling (I'd really like to meet the asses who started the whole "a
bike is a vehicle" mentality, such that now biking peaceably on
sidewalks is considered a crime), and I'd not be too surprised if
things turn out as I fear...I'm telling you, I have a lot of
experience with lawyers, and they really can con the devil himself out
his dues (ever read "Merchant of Venice"??)....
> AAARRGGGHH. If that is any reflection of how the mayor runs things I
> sure don't want him dropping his hat in the "Run for president" ring.
It's very curious, but I'm not sure Mayor Bloomberg even notices
bicycling matters, unlike his personal interest in gun control and
public health and grand building projects...no, the anti-bicycling
impetus seems to be from the NYPD for some reason....
> >> Bill Baka, again.
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