Author Topic: Cycles (Read 4142 times)

Serious · **Reply #30 on:** October 10, 2008, 03:23:19 AM

Cycles

Reply #30 on: October 10, 2008, 03:23:19 AM

Quote from: sdp

Quote from: sdp
Should pay road tax, say like £15 a year or something and they should have insurance and MOT too and you should need a license to ride one on the roads. k 9/10 cyclists are fine without any of these but then 9/10 people are fine using ladders without falling off and claiming 50k compensation.

I almost started a new topic on this cos I changed my mind.

They should have to pay £1000 road tax, only be allowed on the road between 11pm and 12pm on a friday night. They should be legal game - shotguns and beagles Im talking. And it shouldbe the legal right of any driver to run them over and claim the car-damage money back from the government by way of compensation, plus a reward.

Im sorry, but 9/10 cyclists dont know jack about roads and the highway code or anything, theyre a bunch of dangerous idiots who are too poor and hippified to own cars.

A lot of cyclists do act badly but there should be a proper system of certification for them. Putting a £1000 tax on a bycycle would merely turn them into junk car owners, which means your chances of a nasty accident would go up and so would your fuel bill.

Actually a lot of the car drivers I have encountered are equally bad, perhaps a yearly test with a 5K licence and £20 a litre fuel tax for them too?

Leon · **Reply #31 on:** October 10, 2008, 06:32:29 AM

Cycles

Reply #31 on: October 10, 2008, 06:32:29 AM

Got bored of reading all the posts but my little addition is...

I have no problem cyclists being on the road in general but my problem is with the c**ts in the city who run red lights, ignore all road signs and are just dangerous. They bitch and moan they have just as much right to be on the road (without paying road tax I might add) yet ignore the rules of same road when it suits them.

Toughen up on them and problem sorted but how can you do that without making cyclists register their bikes so they can be caught on camera?

DEViANCE · **Reply #32 on:** October 11, 2008, 09:58:12 AM

Cycles

Reply #32 on: October 11, 2008, 09:58:12 AM

Quote from: sdp

Quote from: sdp
Should pay road tax, say like £15 a year or something and they should have insurance and MOT too and you should need a license to ride one on the roads. k 9/10 cyclists are fine without any of these but then 9/10 people are fine using ladders without falling off and claiming 50k compensation.

I almost started a new topic on this cos I changed my mind.

They should have to pay £1000 road tax, only be allowed on the road between 11pm and 12pm on a friday night. They should be legal game - shotguns and beagles Im talking. And it shouldbe the legal right of any driver to run them over and claim the car-damage money back from the government by way of compensation, plus a reward.

Im sorry, but 9/10 cyclists dont know jack about roads and the highway code or anything, theyre a bunch of dangerous idiots who are too poor and hippified to own cars.

lol what happened?

Rivkid · **Reply #33 on:** October 11, 2008, 10:03:20 AM

Re:Cycles

Reply #33 on: October 11, 2008, 10:03:20 AM

Think Dooms has got the balance right here. I think youve got to accept at least to a point that if everyone rode bikes the way Metal does (well says he does - Ive never seen him!) then in theory hes probably right. However at the same time Rich youve got to realise that the majority of bike riders are untrained and are dangerous. Most cyclists arent as serious about it as you or as careful. Im a good careful driver and have no problems being aware of cyclists - but that doesnt help every day when I have to find a way past a wobbling cyclist in the middle of the road in rush hour traffic.

I dont see the problem with identification on bikes for ID purposes so that the bad ones who give all cyclists a bad name can be punished, and I dont see why they shouldnt pay towards the up keep of the roads when cyclists always claim to have the same rights to be on it. Im not saying they should pay crazy amounts but a token payment from every rider would soon add up and would deter sh*t riders. If its really a serious and safe means of transport then make it so and invest in it.

As for passing on the left - I try and stay aware whats going on all around me before I move anyway so doesnt bother me. However on clear road you aint going to be overtaking me and in a queue I dont see why cyclists think theyve got a god given right to jump it anyway (again on a road they pay nothing towards looking after). If you want to go past thats fair enough - but frankly it should be at your own risk as theres nothing stopping you waiting like everyone else.

mr_roll · **Reply #34 on:** October 12, 2008, 02:17:00 AM

Re:Cycles

Reply #34 on: October 12, 2008, 02:17:00 AM

I think cycle riders should be made to take a test. I dont think they should have tax though, the tax would be there for the upkeep of the roads. Which Cyclists dont really tear up the roads and doesnt cost that much money to repaint the "cycle lanes" onto the roads.

I think they should take a test as most of them are crap, dont indicate, are very erratic.

If I see a motorcyclist behind me and it disapears, I assume its in my blind spot, so check it, as always, before moving out of the lane.

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