(a) No person operating a bicycle shall fail to obey the instructions of official traffic control signals, signs or other devices applicable to vehicles unless otherwise directed by a police officer.
(b) No person shall operate a bicycle upon any street, sidewalk or bicycle path without due regard for the safety of persons or property on or adjacent thereto.
(c) No person shall operate a bicycle on a sidewalk in such fashion as to overtake and pass a pedestrian or vehicle lawfully operated on a sidewalk without first giving an audible signal reasonably calculated to warn such person or vehicle operator of the presence of the approaching vehicle without startling such person or operator. No person operating a bicycle upon a sidewalk shall overtake and pass a blind person carrying a white cane except by dismounting and overtaking and passing such person on foot.
(d) No person operating a bicycle shall enter a roadway, sidewalk or crosswalk or emerge from an alley, driveway or building without first observing, and yielding the right of way to, the vehicular and pedestrian traffic moving upon such roadway, sidewalk or crosswalk.
(e) Bicycles shall be operated on the right side of roadways as near the curb, berm or shoulder as possible.
(f) Persons riding bicycles upon roadways shall ride in single file only and not abreast, except on paths or parts of streets set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles.
(g) No person operating a bicycle on any roadway shall carry any package, bundle or article in a manner which necessitates taking either hand from the handle bars.
(h) Wherever a designated, usable path for bicycles has been provided adjacent to a street, bicycle riders shall use such path and shall not use the street.
(i) No person shall operate a bicycle in such manner as to accomplish a turn, change lanes or stop without first giving a signal by hand and arm with his or her left hand extended to the left side of the bicycle as follows:
(1) For a left turn or lane change, the hand and arm shall be extended horizontally;
(2) For a right turn or lane change, the upper arm shall be extended horizontally with the forearm and hand extended upward:
(3) To stop or decrease speed, the hand and arm shall be extended diagonally downward The operator of a bicycle shall not be required to give such signals in an emergency maneuver which could not reasonably have been foreseen.
(j) No person shall operate a bicycle at a speed greater than is reasonable and proper under the conditions then existing.
(k) No person shall engage in trick riding or operate a bicycle on any roadway without both hands upon the handle bars, except when necessary to give the hand signals required in subsection (i) hereof.
(Ord. 65-73. Passed 12-11-73.)