University Daily Kansan, February 12, 1982 Page 11
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Bill would make mopeds, cycles legally same
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-Students who ride motorized bicycles to class may soon have to follow the parking and on-coming rules that apply to motorcycles.
Motorized bikes, or mopeds, are now allowed on campus at any time and can be parked almost anywhere. But that may change if a bill sponsored by State Sen. Jane Eldride, R-Lawrence, nasses the Kansas Leisuristia.
ELDREDGE WANTS mopeds, now regulated scarcelv more than bicycles.
to gain the same legal status as motorcycles. If approved, her bill will require that mopeds be insured, and vehicles be operated by someone of legal driving age.
"My son will probaby kill me," she said Tuesday. "He's been saving for a moped when he turns 14. But I don't think they're safe for kids that age."
Besides requiring that drivers of mopeds be 16, the bill probably would result in a change in campus policy regarding the vehicles, Mary Ann Robinson, a sergeant with the KU police, said yesterday.
"This is state property, and that would be a state law," she said.
However, E.W. Fendetmaier, a field supervisor with the KU Parking Services, said he was unsure whether the mowers or mpeds would be charged by the law.
"THE PHYSICAL, size of this vehicle won't change, and we've never had any complaints about them except people parking them to close to doors," he said.
At a hearing of the Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee yesterday, Rick Davis, a representative for the Kansas Motorcycle Incorporated, opposed the poll but because mops were more like bicycles than motorcycles.
Davis said 46 states, as well as the National Highway Traffic Safety Association, had drawn up laws for motorcycle riders from those regulating motorcycles.
DAVIS SAID the two vehicles were not at all identical because mopeds accelerated to only 30 mph and then crashed, reached speeds of more than 100 mph.
"The appealing thing about mopeds is that you don't spend an arm and a leg on insurance and registration fees," Willems said.
Willems predicted that moped sales at Horizons, which have averaged about 259 a year for the last three years, would drop about 60 percent if the law required them to be insured and registered as motorcycles.
However, Davis said the bill was designed to make moped driven safer, but would allow moped owners to "soup up" the traffic and improve traffic as legally as motorcycles.
Another effect of the bill would be a decrease in moped sales, Hank Willems, manager of Horizons Honda-Harley Davidson, 1811 St. Sixth, said.
"Permitting motorized bicyclists to ride down the middle of a traffic lane
could substantially increase the likelihood of accidents," Davis said.
WILLEMS SAID the law would scare
"A lot of older people come in here and really hate motorcycles," he said, "but they buy a moped and love it.
off older people who bought the cheap and were not fast-moving vehicles
"The law might urge younger people onto bigger bikes. It might end up putting young people on machines that are actually more dangerous."
Chester Sullivan, KU professor of English, said he probably would buy a motorcycle if he had to take out insurance on his moped.
"I like my moped," he said, "but I think I'd go for something bigger if I had to insure it."
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