Is the end of a San Jose law requiring bike licenses to help retrieve or find missing bike going to affect students at KIPP San Jose Collegiate?At KSJC there are numerous students who ride bikes to school or at home. They ride because the bicycle is their transportation or because they like it. The end of bike licenses is something that is going to affect a great number of students if they realize what it really means.
Without bike licenses it will be easier for some to steal a bike and get away with it. Without licenses it will be harder for the owner of the bike and the police to locate the missing bike.
Junior Martin Ly said, “[Bikes not needing to be licensed is] bad because when it gets stolen you can’t get it back and bikes are expensive.”
Some students don’t mind the end of bike licensing, even though for others it is something that might seriously affect their life.
Freshman Richany Mak said, “I don’t really care[about bikes not needing to be licensed] since I don’t ride a bike.”
Bike theft is one of the most common property thefts in all cities. San Jose made the top 10 for most bike theft in 2007 in Kryptonite’s blog.
Bike theft is also really hard to detect. If bikes aren’t licensed, then the problem is likely to become even worse than it already is.
Riding to school on the bike is great exercise and helps the environment, but now students may have to think twice before they ride their bike and chain it to somewhere unfamiliar, because it might just become another piece of stolen property.
I feel as if this article is the worst article I have written for the KSJC Wolfpack Chronicle. It is because the article is boring and uninteresting and is very broad with its information. It doesn’t go into depth about any of the bike issues. The angle could have been better. I could have organized the information in a different way and go into a deeper meaning about how bike licensing was going to affect the whole community. This article is lacking some of the key elements of what a good article should have. Not only does it only barely touch on the bike licensing issue. It really only talks about how it will affect the student at KSJC and not anywhere else. If I could rewrite this article I would have made it from a different perspective and make it have a deeper meaning.
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