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[MattyF]

Why could you possibly be so angry about individuals keeping healthy (reducing the cost to the national health service) and socialising in a way that causes the smallest of inconvenience to others..?  Find something real to get upset about. 
 
It's taken you an extra 30 seconds to drive to your gym, golf club, shops (fit in your pointless past time)..  And being a twat you have probably driven in an irresponsible manner putting their and others life at risk as you believe you own the roads and don't understand the highway code..
 
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Glad you have cleared that up , totally illegal to go two abreast on a single track road-unmarked road but see, get held up for miles nearly every day.
I saw a hilarious one the other day cyclists choosing a main extraction route for timber out of keilder for a jolly hanging in a ditch after going around a series of tight corners going two abreast and knocking each over when a timber lorry passed the other side of the road ... not acceptable really and bloody dangerous.

[Stere]

I much prefer cycling in the cuntryside lanes than towns less broken glass & "phone zombie peds" Share use paths are  often rubbish  also as they can be swarming with  dog walkers etc covered in rubbish and blocked by moody  "chavs" ?

 

I do try stay off busy roads though whilst cycling, some of the mammils you see on busy roads are either ignorant or the area/scared of getting lost as on holiday, or scared of damaging there £5000 bike going down country lanes due to potholes etc.

 

Plus sometimes the busy route is the only route available.

 

As for cycling being unheathly due to pollution being in a car is worse than cycling:

 

Cyclists 'exposed to less air pollution than drivers' on busy routes | Environment | The Guardian

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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Study shows people in cars and buses spend longer in toxic air, as do walkers on main roads

 

 

[s o c]

16 hours ago, David Cropper said:

Try living here mate. Great packs of the buggers riding three abreast, especially on a Wednesdays. Christ knows why.

Same around here, evenings and weekends.

theres loads of forestry roads they could use but they like to be seen.

i think some of them are indulging there Lycra fetishes at the same time 

[Conor Wright]

Living in scenic west cork for the last 3 years, seems to draw arseholes on bikes like flies to shite... so I put a 12v air horn on the Landcruiser last summer. I doesn’t make them move over but it’s fun watching them wobble in panic after a quick blast....

What a terrible thing to do, put an air horn on a vehicle and go around scaring the bejaysus out of these poor people. Shame on you.


(for not recording it and posting it!)

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

On 24/07/2019 at 22:15, Khriss said:

Kev ! Bit judgemental n basically they are shopping but now famous ( on Arbtalk I know ...) its a life choice n harsh pics but one day you will be like them ........sorry mate K

No I ‘King won’t! 

[AHPP]

I use a car, jeep, tractors and pay tax on every one of them seperately. Why should competitive/hazardous bike users be exempt?

The question is more why should you have to pay tax on your vehicles. Don’t hate them just because they’ve not been hit like motorists have. Things being taxed isn’t a natural default.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

15 hours ago, Stubby said:

I seem to remember being shot down for starting a similar thread last year where we could not leave our village all day coz of push bikes .

Shot down is a bit strong (and not as I recall it Mr Stubby.)

 

I recall it being an impassioned discussion with powerful and credible cases presented for both the prosecution and the defence. 

 

Must be due another soon eh?

[scbk]

Is there any such thing as 'road tax'?

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Cyclists often report that aggressive motorists justify their behaviour on the basis that they pay “road tax”. But there is...

 

I pay £500 "road tax" for 2 vehicles which spend most of their time parked (up on private land!)

 

 

If I go for a drive, I'm stuck in a que of cars half of which are only paying £20 or whatever tax

 

If I go out on the bike I'm a tax dodger

 

 

Go figure

 

 

 

[Conor Wright]

7 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

The question is more why should you have to pay tax on your vehicles. Don’t hate them just because they’ve not been hit like motorists have. Things being taxed isn’t a natural default.

 

Fair point, we already pay vrt, tax on fuel, vat on the vehicle itself, vat on repairs, annual cvrt/nct/mot charges, parking fees, extortionate insurance fees, cpc, blah blah etcetera etcetera.

It's a bit much but that's a seperate issue, without some form of revenue collection we wouldn't have roads to drive on.

 

I don't hate them, hate is far too strong a word, I more pity them/cannot understand them, how sad must their family lives be that they feel forced to endanger their own lives, damage their nuts and inhale the fumes of passing trucks then call it leisure. 

It's always nice to see families out in the countryside for a cycle, I'd welcome more of that and less of the hoards of reckless mamils. 

[AHPP]

Fair point, we already pay vrt, tax on fuel, vat on the vehicle itself, vat on repairs, annual cvrt/nct/mot charges, parking fees, extortionate insurance fees, cpc, blah blah etcetera etcetera.
It's a bit much but that's a seperate issue, without some form of revenue collection we wouldn't have roads to drive on.
 
I don't hate them, hate is far too strong a word, I more pity them/cannot understand them, how sad must their family lives be that they feel forced to endanger their own lives, damage their nuts and inhale the fumes of passing trucks then call it leisure. 
It's always nice to see families out in the countryside for a cycle, I'd welcome more of that and less of the hoards of reckless mamils. 

Lots of places have roads funded voluntarily. You don’t need tax for them.