James Annan <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> writes:

> The real reason behind this is that my wife and I are recidivist
> criminals. Yes, we ride a tandem (we both work at the same lab). It
> seems that way back in the mists of time, some careless bureaucrat
> drafted a law that was intended to prevent more than one person riding
> on a standard bicycle, but which accidentally included tandems in the
> prohibition. (Despite the law, carrying a passenger is very common,
> and of course no-one enforces such a petty nonsense anyway.) Some
> prefectures have actually changed the law to allow tandems, but
> unfortunately not the one where we live and work.

Would the solution not be for one of you to get off a hundred yards
from the gate, and for one to arrive a single rider on a single
(tandem) bike and the other to arrive on foot? Face saved, no problem,
Herbert-from-security San. Sayonara.

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