{"id":227286556,"date":"2012-03-15T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=227286556"},"modified":"2012-03-15T15:09:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:09:16","slug":"bls-boring-legal-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=227286556","title":{"rendered":"BLS (Boring Legal Stuff )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bike Law<br \/>\nby Steven M. Magas, The Bike Lawyer<br \/>\nCan\u2019t you just picture it \u2014 maps laid out, clothes folded ready to be loaded into waiting panniers, bike all tuned up, the smell of chain lube wafting about the room? The last thing on the touring cyclist\u2019s mind as they go through their pre-trip checklist is the BLS (Boring Legal Stuff ).<br \/>\nUnfortunately, failure to consider the BLS of insurance and estate planning can end up costing the touring cyclist time, money, and their family\u2019s peace of mind. Insurance? You don\u2019t need to worry about no stinkin\u2019 insurance, right? You\u2019re riding a bike for two weeks, not a car \u2026 what can possibly happen? (For this part of the article, let\u2019s assume you are staying inside the United States \u2014 things really get crazy in the insurance world when you cross sovereign borders.)<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nRead more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adventurecycling.org\/features\/bikelaw.cfm\">https:\/\/www.adventurecycling.org\/features\/bikelaw.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike Law by Steven M. Magas, The Bike Lawyer Can\u2019t you just picture it \u2014 maps laid out, clothes folded ready to be loaded into waiting panniers, bike all tuned up, the smell of chain lube wafting about the room? The last thing on the touring cyclist\u2019s mind as they go through their pre-trip checklist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=227286556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BLS (Boring Legal Stuff )&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227286556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227286556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227286556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227286556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227286556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227286556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227286556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}