Each person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all the rights and shall be subject to all 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 the traffic regulations of the city applicable to vehicles or by the traffic regulations of the city applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except as to special regulations in this chapter pertaining to bicycles and except as to those provisions of laws and regulations which, by their nature, can have no application.