Wide Handle-Bars
•Sir;—l am glad your correspondent Morris Sears called attention to the extravagantly wide handle-bars affected by some youthful cyclists of late. According to the comment of tbe Traffic Superintendent, there is no legal limit to the width, and all the authorities can do about it is to approach the parents of the owner “if it is considered that the width of the handle-bars is such that a potential danger exists,” which doesn’t seem a very satisfactory solution to the probtem. How is aayone to know what width “constitutes a potential danger”? Anyway, I fail to see what advantage, from the point of view either of the rider or other road users these freakish adjuncts are supposed to have over handle-bars of tbe normal width.—Yours, etc., ILAM. May 6, 1969.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31981, 7 May 1969, Page 16
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