{"id":12535,"date":"2025-01-06T11:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=12535"},"modified":"2025-01-05T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T22:54:35","slug":"hands-free-is-now-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/hands-free-is-now-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands-Free Is Now The Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HandsFree3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HandsFree3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"269\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HandsFree3.jpg 497w, https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HandsFree3-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12537\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HandsFree4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12537\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HandsFree4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"265\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HandsFree4.jpg 497w, https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HandsFree4-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong> <em>This highway alert says it all. Hang up your phone and drive!<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hands-free is now the law in Colorado. At last.<\/p>\n<p>Using your phone&#8211;unless it is hands-free&#8211;is now prohibited, but the law could be better. It&#8217;s still only a secondary offense, meaning the cops can&#8217;t stop you <em>just<\/em> for using your phone but if they stop you for something else they can also fine you for the phone. And if they&#8217;re eager to make the point it&#8217;s usually not hard to find some primary offense to stop you for, then let you off on speeding (57 in a 55 zone) but give you the ticket for the phone. Be warned. Heck, just hang the damn thing up. Your call is not more important than my life.<\/p>\n<p>Now, did I shoot those photos above while driving? Nope. I have a dash camera and I popped out the memory card when I got home and downloaded those images.<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>Riding a motorcycle is unique unto itself and unknowable to the outside world. &#8212; Jon Robertson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hands-free is now the law in Colorado. At last. Using your phone&#8211;unless it is hands-free&#8211;is now prohibited, but the law could be better. It&#8217;s still only a secondary offense, meaning the cops can&#8217;t stop you just for using your phone but if they stop you for something else they can also fine you for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[1375],"class_list":["post-12535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-legislation","tag-hands-free-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12540,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12535\/revisions\/12540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}