Channel 4 News cry-in for cyclists last night.

[Ribenapigeon]

[dydey90]

[Ribenapigeon]

[dydey90]

It's too much of a difficult issue really. Would a four year old have to do an assessment before removing their stabilisers? Children are still road users as cyclists.

Maybe we should just abandon VED. There's a new idea.
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[mailee]

Well it's pretty obvious that the sensationalist TV companies think that all motorcyclists are the spawn of the devil who's only purpose in life is to kill themselves and everyone around them in a maelstrom of twisted metal and balls of flame! Of course cyclists are sedate quiet eco friendly road users who could never do any damage with such a light vehicle and are at the mercy of every other road user.

[G]

It's 78 years since there's been a direct connection between 'road tax' and funding to roads.

There's nowhere else really people expect a direct correlation.
(Maybe apart from illegal immigrants stealing our 'elf-services?)

I haven't seen anyone say "well, they don't deserve to have their car fire put out because they don't pay council tax/don't pay it here". Or "well, I pay loads of VAT on cake, so I deserve to have the government spend loads of money on cake-infrastructure".

As mentioned, bikes pay exactly the same road tax as cars anyway.

[Monkeypony]

[Monkeypony]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Ste]

[CVSensei]

[Val]

[Ste]

[Polarbear]

I don't think push bikes should be taxed but I do think they should be registered and 3rd party insurance compulsory.

Maybe register the person and have some sort of plate transferrable between bikes?

I say this because of the utter utter twats I see riding round London taking not a blind bit of notice of red lights, zebra crossing etc. If it was easy for coppers to issue a FPN against them they might take some notice of the road laws.

Plus I might have been able to get the cost of my respray back after 1 utter lycra clad shit scraped up the side of my car and just rode off.

Personally I'd like death race rules where it's open season on the fuckers but that isn't going to happen.
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[Monkeypony]

[Ste]

Number plates on push bikes or on cyclists themselves... that'll work.

[Ribenapigeon]

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[Triton Thrasher]

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[Monkeypony]

[Ste]

[Polarbear]

[andyscooter]

why cant all you other cyclists be like me and ride down the towpaths

or just up the road to the pub
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