>Not unless it’s incessant and I am late trying to get somewhere.
It’s never happened when I’m in a rush, but once I was “pulled over” by a police car while riding a bicycle. Also, police do check for stolen bicycles frequently, and a lot of foreigners get caught up in these because once a bike is stolen, it gets shuffled from person to person, especially in the gaijin community.
When I was working in Japan (90s), locals who no longer wanted their bicycles dropped them at the post office and anybody who wanted one was free to help themselves to an abandoned bike.
Do they still do this?