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I guess they are just trying to make a point since there are just so many fixies on Berlin´s streets.. By now it´s more like a fashion thing to ride fixed so they´re trying to cut it down.. but it´s like using a sledge-hammer to crack a nut, that´s what the lawyer guy said.
I don´t think it will have huge long term effects. By now they have confiscated less than 12 bikes and media is blowing it up big time, so let´s see.. fingers crossed they´re NOT waiting for the ECMC to increase their collection
Got this from the Berlin Police Website – seems rather silly, according to a friend who part lives there, most of the fixed kids over there ride brakeless anyway.
For the first time the police will have an eye on a special kind of bicycle. They are called “Fixies” or “Singlespeed-Bikes”. These minimalist trend-bikes, e.g. ridden by bike-messengers and members of a growing fan-scene are being used more and more in city-traffic. The bicycles, for the purpose of saving weight and conveying a very special “Kick” during fast riding, do not have proper security-measurements, i.e. they lack any sort of brake. Only foresighted riding, and enormous capacity of reaction ought to hinder accidents. The use of such vehicles, which were originally designed to be used for track-bike sports, in road traffic is profoundly dangerous and inevitably bound to health- and live-threatening situations for other road-users as well as the rider. In consequence, police will not only file a complaint against the riders of such fixies, but make insistently clear, that the bicycles will be seized after reoccurring identification.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 teresa // May 20, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Yeah I´ve heard about that, very strange!
I guess they are just trying to make a point since there are just so many fixies on Berlin´s streets.. By now it´s more like a fashion thing to ride fixed so they´re trying to cut it down.. but it´s like using a sledge-hammer to crack a nut, that´s what the lawyer guy said.
I don´t think it will have huge long term effects. By now they have confiscated less than 12 bikes and media is blowing it up big time, so let´s see.. fingers crossed they´re NOT waiting for the ECMC to increase their collection
2 Meg // May 20, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Wow, what’s the deal with that? Are people having accidents on fixies? Why are they against them?
3 teresa // May 21, 2009 at 9:00 pm
I don´t get it either, haven´t heard anything about a rising number of accidents related to fixed bikes..
4 Claire // May 25, 2009 at 8:54 am
Got this from the Berlin Police Website – seems rather silly, according to a friend who part lives there, most of the fixed kids over there ride brakeless anyway.
For the first time the police will have an eye on a special kind of bicycle. They are called “Fixies” or “Singlespeed-Bikes”. These minimalist trend-bikes, e.g. ridden by bike-messengers and members of a growing fan-scene are being used more and more in city-traffic. The bicycles, for the purpose of saving weight and conveying a very special “Kick” during fast riding, do not have proper security-measurements, i.e. they lack any sort of brake. Only foresighted riding, and enormous capacity of reaction ought to hinder accidents. The use of such vehicles, which were originally designed to be used for track-bike sports, in road traffic is profoundly dangerous and inevitably bound to health- and live-threatening situations for other road-users as well as the rider. In consequence, police will not only file a complaint against the riders of such fixies, but make insistently clear, that the bicycles will be seized after reoccurring identification.
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