Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights, and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by the laws of this state declaring rules of the road applicable to vehicles, or by this chapter applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except as to special regulations in this article, and except as to those provisions of laws and ordinances which, by their nature, can have no application.
(Code 1976, § 7.83)