{"id":5718,"date":"2014-12-29T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=5718"},"modified":"2014-12-28T12:50:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T19:50:46","slug":"new-colorado-helmet-law-threatening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/new-colorado-helmet-law-threatening\/","title":{"rendered":"New Colorado Helmet Law Threatening"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Motorcycle<\/a>

A bill to bring back a universal Colorado helmet law appears to be in the offing.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

The legislative update at our ABATE of Colorado<\/a> D-10 meeting on Sunday brought news of a bill possibly in the offing that would reinstitute a helmet law here.<\/p>\n

According to State Coordinator Bruce Downs, Rep. Paul Rosenthal had first stated that he would definitely such a bill in the upcoming session. Rosenthal then apparently backed off from that, indicating that he might work on developing a base with an eye toward introducing such a bill in the 2016 session.<\/p>\n

ABATE has been cooperating with two other major motorcycle groups in the state, the Colorado Confederation of Clubs<\/a> and the US Defenders<\/a>, preparing to fight any such bill.<\/p>\n

The groups have put together a letter that will be made available at numerous motorcycle events, such as ABATE’s Last Brass Monkey Run<\/a> this week and the Colorado Motorcycle Expo<\/a> (formerly Colorado Motorcycle Show and Swap). Riders will be asked to sign the letter and provide their address, and then the letters will be sorted by the signer’s representative. Should a bill be introduced at any point the letters will be hand delivered to the appropriate representative.<\/p>\n

The idea is to be ready, and hopefully to have thousands of signed letters in hand to be delivered.<\/p>\n

“There’s no way this is going away,” said Bruce of the attempt to reinstate the helmet law.<\/p>\n

According to Bruce, the organizations sought a meeting with Rosenthal to discuss the issue but the representative made it clear he would not be swayed by their arguments.<\/p>\n

Recent from National Motorcycle Examiner<\/strong>
\nOnly a biker knows . . .: Motorcycle wit and wisdom, 35<\/a><\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

Full Throttle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c solves the problem or ends the suspense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The legislative update at our ABATE of Colorado D-10 meeting on Sunday brought news of a bill possibly in the offing that would reinstitute a helmet law here. According to State Coordinator Bruce Downs, Rep. Paul Rosenthal had first stated that he would definitely such a bill in the upcoming session. Rosenthal then apparently backed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,12],"tags":[653,654],"class_list":["post-5718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abate","category-helmet-laws","tag-colorado-helmet-law","tag-rep-paul-rosenthal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718","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=5718"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5724,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions\/5724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}