50 years ago, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission drafted a set of (well meaning) regulations concerning bicycles. As a result, we are required to sell “sidewalk bicycles” with foot brakes, otherwise known as “coaster brakes”. While this only applies to the smallest bicycles, it does limit our choices, and seriously limits how smaller mountain bikes can be engineered. Today we’ll talk about this law and what it means.
Here it is right here https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-C/part-1512
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Spawn cycles out of BC has awesome kids bikes with no coaster brakes.
6:53 they…..they used a metric measurements in the law?! How preposterous!
Seth for Senate 2024
Nobody ever landed on the moon!
They should sell the kids bike with a stupid long seat post and then they can sell it with a free hub.
u should make a bigsky bikepark mt video
Mountain Bikes don't have coaster brakes?? What about the first MTB ever, the ubiquitous Klunker! (Okay yeah I know they're not actually real mountain bikes, and the first Breezer MTBs got rid of the coaster brake at the first opportunity)
Cleary bikes new have free hubs brand new from bike shops
Politicians passing laws on subjects that they know nothing about? You dont say? Finish the sentence : Politicians are ______ ?
Lawmakers making laws about things they don't understand is the norm and it's ridiculous. My bike, my choice!
My God, This is Fix Gear Bike on a Youngling's bike
What’s with all the kid bike videos now
5:25 ah yes the three most important events in history
Dang! Just saw my congressman in Target yesterday… coulda said something
i cant wait to ask my co worker at the bike shop on he got his daughters bike all good to go