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But you're adding the word directly to make it so. The pedals do act on the wheel via the chain.
Without context, I can't tell what the particular subsection is about so no doubt you're right. I'm not going to spend/waste a minute of my life looking it up, I don't fixie these days
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no doubt you're right
There's always room for doubt 🙂 If you want a different opinion, ask a lawyer, but we've been through C&U in the context of RTTC (now CTT) regulations, and the only full sized pedal cycle which can be legally used on the road without brakes is an Ordinary.
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you're adding the word directly to make it so
Only as shorthand for what the law actually says, which is "without the interposition of any gearing or chain"
gbj_tester
No it doesn't, because a fixie biek has a chain, not pedals acting directly on the wheel axle. That regulation applies to things like Ordinaries which use the wheel axle as the crank shaft.