When I was a young racing cyclist in Western Australia some 50-plus years ago, it was still a legal requirement for a bicycle to have a bell. This was more honoured in the breach than the observance, and I never saw or heard of a recreational cyclist being pulled over because they lacked a bell, but you could be excluded from the start line of a race by a bloody-minded commissaire if you didn't have one, so we would buy cheap aluminium bells, drill them out like Swiss cheese, this being the age of drillium, and fasten them under the saddle.
Western Australia had also previously had the requirement for bicycle number plates, and although that was no longer the case when I arrived there in 1963, you still saw quite a number of bicycles being ridden around with number plates still attached: https://historical.cc/news/2017/5/12/wa-bicycle-number-plates. Nick Payne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4192acb4-2109-4d1d-9da2-abca6dec2a73n%40googlegroups.com.
