(A) Abreast. When two or more persons in a group are operating bicycles, they shall not ride abreast, but shall ride in single file.
(B) Clinging to vehicles. No person operating a bicycle within the city shall cling or attach himself or herself or his or her bicycle to any other moving vehicle.
(C) Emerging from alleys, driveways or garages. The operator of a bicycle emerging from an alley, driveway or garage shall stop the bicycle immediately prior to driving onto or across a sidewalk or onto or across a sidewalk line, projected across an alley and shall exercise extreme care in these cases.
(D) Extra passengers. No person operating a bicycle within the city shall carry another person on the same bicycle. This restriction shall not apply to tandem bicycles.
(E) Intoxicated; drugs; riding. No person shall operate a bicycle within the city while under the influence of liquor or drugs.
(F) Lights. No bicycle shall be operated within the city between 30 minutes before sunset and 30 minutes before sunrise without a clear, white, properly lighted headlight, visible under normal atmospheric conditions from the front thereof for not less than 200 feet, and firmly attached to the bicycle, or without a red reflector, firmly attached to the bicycle, which is clearly visible in the headlight beam of an automobile, for a distance of 200 feet to the rear of the bicycle.
(G) Place of operation. Bicycles may not be operated upon any sidewalks.
(H) Parking. No person shall at any time place any bicycle or bicycles along buildings in such a manner as to interfere with the ingress or egress thereof or to interfere with pedestrians, or along roadways where they may interfere with traffic or with persons entering or alighting from automobiles. No person shall move or in any manner interfere with any bicycle which is properly parked, nor shall any person interfere or, in any manner, hinder any person from properly parking a bicycle; except that, members of the Police Department or Fire Department may move or, in proper cases, prevent the parking of a bicycle, when, in the judgment of a police officer or firefighter, the member’s action is necessary in order to properly safeguard persons or property.
(I) Right; keep to. All bicycles, when operated on roadways, shall be kept to the right and shall be operated as nearly as practicable at the right-hand edge of the roadway.
(J) Speed. No bicycle shall be operated faster than is reasonable and proper, and every bicycle shall be operated with reasonable regard for the safety of the rider and of other persons and property.
(K) Traffic regulations; observation. Every person operating a bicycle within the city shall observe all traffic signs and signals, and shall observe all other traffic rules and regulations applicable thereto.
(L) Reckless riding. At no time shall a bicycle be ridden in a reckless, careless or negligent manner, or in such a manner as to endanger lives of pedestrians or in such a manner as to interfere with lawful traffic and the use of the streets. Riding without hands on the handlebars, deliberate wobbling from side to side, and other unnecessary and dangerous acts conducive to accidents are considered reckless riding.
(M) Turns. The operator of a bicycle on a roadway, when making a right turn, shall follow the right-hand lane next to the right-hand edge of the roadway, and the operator of a bicycle on a roadway, when making a left turn, shall approach the point of turning in the traffic lane nearest the center of the roadway, and shall not cut the left-hand corner. No operator of a bicycle shall suddenly start, slow down, stop or attempt to turn, without first giving the standard signal required by state law for motor vehicles under the same circumstances.
(Prior Code, § 74.05) (Ord. 1517, passed 3-23-1942; Ord. 2016-001, passed 1-12-2016)