harlechjoe
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Is this is the silly season for newspaper stories? Today I read a proposal for bicycles to display number plates..........where on earth would they go ?
Registration plates on Bicycles
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Darius_Jedburgh
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And yet another thread appears on this topic.
harlechjoe
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...........didn't mean to cause irritation - i've just noticed yesterdays posting
fossyant
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You are a good day or two late.
raleighnut
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Happens every few years, some tory peanut generally brings it up as being 'tough on crime' whilst ignoring the far more seious crimes of corruption and tax avoidance not to mention inner city violence and gang/knife crime. 
Here is contrarian thought. What about a riding permit with annual or 3 years fee. No impact on the number of bikes one owns. Usual pension rates etc.
Only applies to anyone above 18 years. Just one prerequisite - 3rd party insurance. All online and digitised with various bike insurance companies listed as drop down with all their respective value propositions blurbs. Should not take more than 5 minutes plus the cost of a sandwich / cappuccino.
You will still get the outliers but in the main covers legitimate concerns raised about errant cyclists and parties that get injured.
Only applies to anyone above 18 years. Just one prerequisite - 3rd party insurance. All online and digitised with various bike insurance companies listed as drop down with all their respective value propositions blurbs. Should not take more than 5 minutes plus the cost of a sandwich / cappuccino.
You will still get the outliers but in the main covers legitimate concerns raised about errant cyclists and parties that get injured.
Landsurfer
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I take it your offering to pay the £millions it will cost to set up, manage and run this system of regulation. No doubt with severe penalties for those that do not give in to this state control.... and a few more laws the Police can ignore ....
No one will bother and no one will inforce it, when was the last time you saw any plod on a routine patrol, we have idiots driving past our house (a 30mph limit) and any speed they like because they know they’ll get away with it.
mustang1
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steveindenmark
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Fake news. This goes round and round on a regular basis.
Having 3rd party insurance is something I agree with though.
Having 3rd party insurance is something I agree with though.
mjr
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Yes, it's never too soon to get toddlers on bikes paying the insurance industry. Who cares if they struggle to do much damage?
Registration numbers on bikes? Grant Shapps comes out as a fan of North Korea. Whoda thunkit?
Illaveago
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Someone with an idea of making some quick money setting up this scheme must have spoken to Michael Green who went along with it .
So if insurance companies became more involved would they want proof that the cycles are well maintained and so insist on a M O T of some kind .
A second thought just occurred. Wouldn't this also lead to false insurance claims for injury like has happened to motorists ?
So if insurance companies became more involved would they want proof that the cycles are well maintained and so insist on a M O T of some kind .
A second thought just occurred. Wouldn't this also lead to false insurance claims for injury like has happened to motorists ?
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Which country, state, county, city, town or village has ever successfully implemented such a scheme ? Can't imagine the UK being the first.
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