Legal requirements for your bike

There are regulations and standards that affect whether a bike is legal to ride on the road and whether it was legal for the shop to sell it.

The most commonly enforced regulation is the requirement that bikes must have lights when ridden at night. Read our Cycle Lighting article for more information about this surprisingly complex subject.

CTC’s Technical Officer, Chris Juden, has produced a summary of the regulations and standards that affect the equipment used by cyclists.