Tow Vehicle Needed - Cops clear Busycle ?

Our 6th Annual National Mayors' Ride starts Mon April 28 from San Francisco City Hall hopefully with Mayor Gavin Newsom's blessing. We will be using two Busycle rides on the weekend that leads into that Monday to bring attention to NBG Day with two demonstration rides as per our schedule/scorecard at http://www.BikeRoute.com/NationalMayorsRide2008

On Friday April 25, we will have the Busycle at the Justin Herman Plaza start of the monthly Critical Mass ride for people to try. And then on Sunday April 27, Santa Clara County Supervisor Liz Kniss and outgoing Palo Alto Mayor, Councillor Yoriko Kishimoto, will be leading a bike ride from here in the Stanford city to Golden Gate Park where we will meet the San Francisco Bike Coalition. Their membership will be enjoying demonstration rides on the 15-person reconverted Dodge van that will be going back to Boston in 2009 as a part of my Author Tour at http://www.bikeroute.com/HBGR .

You can help us make San Francisco happen if you have a strong vehicle with a tow hitch that can move our Busycle from here in Palo Alto to the Golden Gate City. Gerry Barnett from down in the San Bernardino area has donated a two bar that we are trying to work out a way to get up here. And yet if we can't get that up here and then mounted in time, we could still rent a tow dolly or even a car trailer from U-Haul, as we have in the past, However it works out, we still need a vehicle we can tow with. We can even supply the driver if you can help!

In a perfect world, we will also be able to find a place where we can leave it in San Francisco on Friday and Saturday nite. Does anyone have any ideas/leads here?

In addition, that Busycle like pedal car (an '86 Buick Regal) up in Canada that got cited for being on the road, got laughed out of court. Click on the image below to see the video of it getting a ticket.

Here is what came of the citation:
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/04/04/pedal-car.html?ref=rss

'Flintstones' car case thrown out of court
Last Updated: Friday, April 4, 2008 | 9:22 AM ET

A man who was facing charges for driving a pedal car won a victory in a Toronto courtroom on Thursday.
Trevor Baldwin was pulled over on a Toronto street last October for operating an unsafe vehicle on Queen Street West.

The Buick he was driving looked more like a car from The Flintstones animated television show, in which the driver and passengers use their feet to propel the vehicle.

Artist Michel de Broin built the so-called shared propulsion vehicle to make a point about gas consumption.

The hollowed-out car has no engine or transmission and uses candles instead of headlights. It does, however, have hand brakes.

The car, which has a top speed of 15 kilometres an hour, requires all four occupants to pedal and work together ó a sharp contrast to the solitary, effortless experience of a typical car.

As the Crown prosecutor tried to make his case Thursday, the court erupted in laughter, and the charges were thrown out.

Baldwin's legal representative, Terry Fox, said the arresting officer never should have pulled the car over.

"Where's the evidence it was illegal? There was no objective standard here. Just his opinion is what it was, and that's not good enough. It's speculation he based it on," Fox said outside court.

Baldwin said he was happy with the decision. And what did he want to do after leaving court?

"I'm thinking its a really nice day, so we might go for a drive," he said.

That's exactly what Baldwin did. He grabbed three friends, pulled the car out of storage and took it for a spin.
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THX 4 all of U!!

Perfect love drives out fear - John 4:18

Martin Krieg "Awake Again" Author
2009 w/"How America Can Bike & Grow Rich"
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'79 & '86 TransAmerica Bike Rides
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist