There's a reason for that.
It's not road tax. It's vehicle excise duty, and it is a tax purely on owning a car. Much like a tax on buying beer doesn't pay for pubs, it doesn't pay for roads, so that argument is unfortunately spurious.

However, the insurance one is totally valid, and it used to piss me off a fucking treat that probably only about 5% of cyclists have the nous to realise they should have 3rd party insurance at the very least.

The "ah well if I'm in accident it'll be the driver's fault or I won't cause much damage" is exactly the kind of idiotry which should result in cyclists being banned from roads. I fully support cyclists having as much right as cars to be on the roads. If they play by the rules of the roads. Obey all laws, get insured, respect other road users. Just because some car drivers are cunts doesn't give cyclists carte blanche to break the rules. Just as some cyclists being cunts doesn't give drivers the right to tag all cyclists as arseholes.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 17:19, 1 reply)

Didn't actually know insurance was available to cyclists (but of course it must be).
I will investigate.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 10:46, closed)