yeah but cyclist should pay road tax yeah?
I mean they use the roads too
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 13:29, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

they should certainly pay insurance
and have tiny little licence plates on their bikes. otherwise, if you get hit by some twat on a bike and it hurts you a lot, how are you ever going to get compensation?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 13:30, Reply)

Typical ambulance-chasing lawyer.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 13:32, Reply)

it would be win/win
the insurance would be peanuts a year, but it would help those of us who've had our cars bashed into by a cyclist hooning it around (me) or pedestrians who get hit by them
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 13:35, Reply)

Oh dear, I'm agreeing with you.
I don't like it when that happens.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 13:38, Reply)

Not really worth it.
Pedestrian casualties 2001-09

Killed by cycles: 18
Seriously injured by cycles: 434
Killed by cars: 3,495
Seriously injured by cars: 46,245
Figures apply to Great Britain. Source: Department for Transport
( Peej, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 13:42, Reply)

first it's money into the economy, let's charge the pedalling cunts
secondly - you go and ask those 434 people if they might have liked a bit of compensation for the pain or the time they couldn't work etc etc. or the families of the 18 people killed by them.

WORTH EVERY PENNY!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 13:59, Reply)

I'm pretty sure those stats aren't for accidents only caused by cyclists
there are plenty of pricks in headphones ready to step out into a street everywhere
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:09, Reply)

Or more likely it would be money out of the economy.
More people would be put off cycling if your system was implemented - the increase in cardiovascular disease would cost far more than the paltry amount raised by a cycle tax.
It's a bad idea.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:12, Reply)

how do you get killed by a bicycle?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:06, Reply)

Not cooking it right?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:07, Reply)

also, is that stat people killed by a cyclist hitting them,
or like idiot cyclists riding on to ditches and rivers and dying and stuff? or a combination of the 2?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:10, Reply)

Who cares, the cunts are dead?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:12, Reply)

i'll have you know that i am a cyclist.
well, i will be for the next few weeks. If i die, I want your band at my funeral, to be sealed in my tomb to play for me for eternity. Ridding the world of your folk nonsense will be my gift to the world.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:18, Reply)

It's my greatest desire to be buried with you when you die.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:20, Reply)

one day, my sweet yurt prick, one day.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:21, Reply)

I bet they even included them pricks that fall off alot on Youtube

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:12, Reply)

stroke its fur in the wrong direction

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:12, Reply)

What about the times car drivers have knocked me off my bike?
I've not seen a penny in insurance as I am usually to busy picking myself up to catch the number plate as they speed off.
( Peej, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 13:39, Reply)

have you considered
riding your bike in a straight line rather than wobbling all over the road.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 13:52, Reply)

+ putting your feet down when coming to a stop
instead of wobbling all over the place like a dick cos you don't want to take your feet off the pedals?
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 13:54, Reply)

To be fair to PJ
I assume he rides a big wheel into work
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 13:56, Reply)