{"id":2475,"date":"2006-08-01T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T10:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2006-08-01T10:17:42","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T10:17:42","slug":"fixed_gear_bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2475","title":{"rendered":"Fixed Gear Bikes Illegal in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/8059146\/fixedgear_bikes_ille.html\">Cory Doctorow<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>An Oregon judge has ruled that fixed-gear bicycles &#8212; which use the rider&#8217;s leg-power to brake them &#8212; are illegal, and must be outfitted with traditional lever\/caliper brakes. The cyclist who was ticketed for the offense fought it in traffic court, and was represented by a pretty sharp attorney, judging from the partial transcript here. It seems obvious that &#8220;fixies&#8221; should be lawful, since they can satisfy the statutory requirement that bikes be &#8220;equipped with a brake that enables the operator to make the braked wheels skid on dry, level, clean pavement. strong enough to skid tire.&#8221; Nevertheless, the judge ruled against the cyclist &#8212; I hope she appeals.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow: An Oregon judge has ruled that fixed-gear bicycles &#8212; which use the rider&#8217;s leg-power to brake them &#8212; are illegal, and must be outfitted with traditional lever\/caliper brakes. The cyclist who was ticketed for the offense fought it in traffic court, and was represented by a pretty sharp attorney, judging from the partial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}