New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law SEC. 1230. Effect of regulations.
Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles or skating or gliding on in-line skates.
Every person riding a bicycle or skating or gliding on in-line skates upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this title, except as to special regulations in this article and except as to those provisions of this title which by their nature can have no application. No bicycle shall be used to carry more persons at one time than the number for which it is designed and equipped. Clinging to vehicles. No person riding upon any bicycle, coaster, in-line skates, roller skates, sled or toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself to any vehicle being operated upon a roadway. No person shall ride on or attach himself to the outside of any vehicle being operated upon a roadway.