Idaho Has Cooler License Plates Than Your State
By Steve Casimiro, Adventure Journal on January 25th, 2012
This special mountain biking plate is the result of an effort by Geoff Baker begun in 2009 to rally support and petition the Department of Transportation. Since approval, more than 600 MTB fans have paid the $35 to rock the knobbies. The dough has raised $13,000 for the Department of Parks and Recreation to use for trail building, maintenance, and improvements. Via Bike Rumor.
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Idaho vehicle code also allows cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and traffic lights as stop signs. Why is Idaho so bike friendly and not (my state)? What’s the deal?
Scott^, surely you jest. Those few laws may be friendly, but try and ride on a road without a bike lane or actually ride employing the mentioned laws. Worse yet, get hit by a car and try to legally go after the driver. Nothing friendly there. Lots of bubba mentality on the road here.
I attribute these few friendly laws to apathy– nobody has come up with enough momentum to change them.
LA has pretty much the same problems: no bike lanes, a police force that thinks cyclists don’t belong on the roads and blames them for all accidents, etc.. It’s just that they also pull us over for not completely stopping at stop signs or running red lights at night when no one is around. So you’ve got that going for you, which is nice.
But riding on roads pretty much sucks no matter where you do it in this country. And in most other countries. It’s the life we chose, I guess.