Looking at some of the other members comments about my posts I didn't realize you can only voice one point of view and that is yours.I just take a more laid back & less intense attitude towards these things and try to enjoy every moment of every day.I dont want to live in a Gestapo type state and I dont want to grass my own mum or dad up for using a mobile when driving as some members would.
As for not understanding the way the government collects and spends it's taxes I certainly know the way they collect it and waste it when they spend it.
I drive to work 650 miles a week ( no other choice ) and pay 62 % tax on every gallon of fuel I buy this equates to about £ 48 per week in fuel tax,so please don't try and tell me that the cyclists pays equal amounts into the proverbial pot they don't ! I would like to know how many members think they should pay road tax for their bike ?
I drink beer and pay 38% of the price of a pint of beer in tax...... my wife who drinks coffee in the pub, so deosn't ay this tax. Is it unfair that she uses the same Pub?
You pay tax on fuel because you use fuel, in the same way as I choose to drink beer. The difference is that I do not bleat about it expect my beer to be subsidised by others.
As for "road tax" it is properly VED, and cyclist are in Class A along with all vehicles with emissions of less than 100g Co2 per mile..... are you suggesting that we have a special rate for cycists outside the normal calculations?
As for the members who think I am not a cyclist I cycle every day (7 days a week ) I used to run every day before that.I am now 64 years old and have a laid back attitude to life I have seen lots of changes over the years some good some bad and the one thing I have learned is not to swallow all the spin and lies the politicians feed us and most of all to enjoy my cycling and not go looking to report some other human being for minor misdemeanour's you all seem to me to need to chill-out a bit and enjoy your cycle to work.
If I report something it is because t is dangerous and the person needs to be taken to task. If you feel that bad driving and endangering others is unacceptable then you are entitled to that opinion, but do not expect others to share it. Personally I have a 100% hit rate. Every driver I have reported has been subsequently the sunject of formal censure such as a fine or points on their license
Last but not least the next time you are trying to beat your cycle to work best ever time think of the poor homeless person in a shop doorway.get off your bike give them your sandwiches & and a couple of quid this will help them and you. It might even get you out of the me me me attitude.
or.... Last but not least the next time you are trying to drive to work, think of the poor homeless person in a shop doorway.Stop your car, give them your sandwiches & and a couple of quid this will help them and you. It might even get you out of the me me me attitude, and realise that by actually doing something about dangerous drivers you are helping others by making the roads safer
On a side note I went to box hill last Saturday for a family picnic and was looking forward to zooming up Zigzag road in my car ( the Olympic route ) but I couldn't because of all the bloody cyclists hundreds of them riding two abreast (there were signs saying single file for cyclists )
did I moan No I just laughed and thought of you lot on here.
have a good day
Considerate of you "zooming up" a single track road with poor visibility, narrow and with difficult corners.... perhaps those cyclists saved you from injuring someone and being reported for your poor driving?