The Freeway Ride - On Bicycles

[RAT Power]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=415_1209004545

Any of you SoCal chippies seen these geniuses?

[Fire1]

Illegal but kinda cool. Glad I don't work those freeways. I would hate to sit in traffic. Motors here I come.

[Officer Rando]

Reminds me of the time I got a call in Santa Ana of a PED riding a bike in the HOV lane. Funny thing was, when I got there, he was still there and not 11-44. Yay for me! :lol:

[HIPCHIP]

This looks like a great way to get runned over:rolleyes::confused::lol::sad:

[SB 405]

I remember seeing a sign posted on the 101 frwy in the Malibu Canyon area many years ago that read Bicycles must use next exit. Anyone know about a law that allows a person to ride a bike on a frwy if no other road running in the same direction within a certain number of miles of the frwy is available?

[HIPCHIP]

I remember seeing a sign posted on the 101 frwy in the Malibu Canyon area many years ago that read Bicycles must use next exit. Anyone know about a law that allows a person to ride a bike on a frwy if no other road running in the same direction within a certain number of miles of the frwy is available?


That's all I remember, if there isn't a road available then a bicycle, etc can use the freeway. I don't know if it's changed, but I know you used to be able to ride a bicycle up and down I-5 between LA and Sacramento. The crazies would get behind an 18-wheeler and draft them down the freeway!:shock:

[E433035]

That's all I remember, if there isn't a road available then a bicycle, etc can use the freeway. I don't know if it's changed, but I know you used to be able to ride a bicycle up and down I-5 between LA and Sacramento. The crazies would get behind an 18-wheeler and draft them down the freeway!:shock:There is a short freeway section of SR68 over the Salinas River and near the old Monterey CHP office where bicycles are allowed.

[playin in traffic]

I remember seeing a sign posted on the 101 frwy in the Malibu Canyon area many years ago that read Bicycles must use next exit. Anyone know about a law that allows a person to ride a bike on a frwy if no other road running in the same direction within a certain number of miles of the frwy is available?


There are several spots on the coast that are like that. Generally it is lawful if no other road is available for bicyclists. Generally, there will also be signs that read "End Freeway" where it becomes lawful for them to ride as it would be a highway and "Begin Freeway" when it becomes unlawful as it is a freeway again.

[25/31]

There is a short freeway section of SR68 over the Salinas River and near the old Monterey CHP office where bicycles are allowed.


I think HWY 4 in Contra costa has a small section also. I thought they were motorcycles at first just spliting traffic.

[retchp]

This may have changed by now, but when I worked Barstow a person could legally ride a bicycle from the CA/NEV state line on I-15 to Field Road, thirty miles out of Barstow (a distance of about fifty miles).

This is because there is no other reasonable route from point A to point B, which is/was the criteria to allow bicycles on the freeway. Actually, there is NO other route!

As a matter fo fact, pedestrians and horse back riders would also be allowed, as well as "motor driven cycles", which are not motorcycles by definition. Thus the signage that says, 'no bicycles, pedestrians or motor driven cycles beyond this point' that regularly delineates a full freeway where such persons or objects are prohibited by law.

If it is not so posted the above are allowed between the postings as of the time I retired in 2001.

I learned all of this the hard way when I cited a bicyclist near ZZYZX Rd. in about 1979 for being on the "freeway" and he beat me in court and had his complaint to the area sustained because I told him he was "stupid" to be riding a bike on the freeway.

[aedmon640]

I think HWY 4 in Contra costa has a small section also.

I saw the sign 'bicycles must exit' for the Willow Pass exit going east on 4 just last weekend. Leading up to the exit is quite a steep incline, and it's not a slow freeway! Certainly not a place I'd want to be on a bicycle

[JDTreon]

wow, more balls than brains. no way ide ride on the freeway, much less split traffic. :shock:

[CTC III-05]

:rolleyes: That is our area. I wouldn't mind that paper.

[Mac]

...Anyone know about a law that allows a person to ride a bike on a frwy if no other road running in the same direction within a certain number of miles of the frwy is available?
Yes, it is legal in certain areas, as other posters have said above. It will be clearly signposted at both the entrance and exit points.

[AaeJae]

I remember getting the call on those psychos. Couldn't get to em.

[HIPCHIP]

With gas approaching $5/gal we may start seeing more bicycles than cars on the freeways!:doh:

[FDandH]

I'm going to do it, not on the freeway. 13 min 4.4 mile downhill ride to the office, 3x's a week. I get to PT on the way home on fireroads and a little pavement.

[CHPUSMC]

There is a short freeway section of SR68 over the Salinas River and near the old Monterey CHP office where bicycles are allowed.

It is funny though, e/b and w/b both have signs saying peds and bicycles MUST exit, then a few miles after that there is a sign with a bicycle saying, "Share the road." It should just have a sign with the bicycle and a saying of, "Moving speed bumps ahead."

[JDTreon]

It is funny though, e/b and w/b both have signs saying peds and bicycles MUST exit, then a few miles after that there is a sign with a bicycle saying, "Share the road." It should just have a sign with the bicycle and a saying of, "Moving speed bumps ahead."
lots of car vs. bicycle collisions on that stretch?

ill have to make a note to avoid it if thats the case.

[CWMellow]

I enjoy to ride... but I think thats a good way to spend the rest of your days in the fender well of a Toyota

[E433035]

I enjoy to ride... but I think thats a good way to spend the rest of your days in the fender well of a ToyotaSadly, I came to that conclusion a number of years ago after years and years of road bike riding. With so many bad, distracted, intoxicated, etc. drivers out there to contend, most of the enjoyment I used to have has been replaced with fear and loathing of who's coming up behind me. These days I have a mountain bike for off-roading and use my road bike pretty much only on dedicated bike paths. There have been so many nasty, usually fatal vehicle vs. bike accidents in my area in the past decade.... :sad: