“Why don’t cyclists pay registration?” Daniel of Melbourne posts.
“Why are they allowed to use the roads that us driving tax-payers pay for at no charge?”
Yeah lets make every kid that wants to ride a bike pay rego with their pocket money. :roll:
Totally invalid argument
We know.
everyones heard it all before.
the aguements and reponses are as old as that Inspired vid with Danny Macaskil
give it a rest and stop reading the comments.
I’ve got the solution:
Pepper blaster!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abIz1KZOOzg&feature=channel_page
“Why are they allowed to use the roads that us driving tax-payers pay for at no charge?”
Man this arguement makes my blood boil. Taxes build roads, taxes from EVERYONE, even if you never touch one. Absolutely zero dollars from car rego goes to building roads. My rego for example is say $400. $35 of that is rego (that would cover paperwork etc), the other $365 is TAC insurance for road accidents. None of this money goes into road infrastructure. the majority of the money is medical insurance, so as a result bicycles are NOT covered by TAC unless a car is involved in the accident.
ew.
Maybe it’s his funk. Maybe it’s Maybelline?
great! moustache tickled me
I’m new to Melbourne…
So what if you’re caught running running a red light with no brakes, no bell, no rear reflector, no helmet while talking on a mobile phone? Not sayin’ I’m guilty of all of them, but two or three may apply at any given time.
I got chased my a cop on a motorcross motorbike in the Brisbane city the other day.
Had front brakes and a bell so he had nothing to get me on 
Still shit myself though
We used to have someone working for us that said “All Cyclists Should Be Registered”.
His line of thought was “Cyclists Run Over and Kill Pedestrians Every Year”. I used to say “I think ALL Pedestrians should be registered, as so many of them jaywalk and run into ME!”
How about we just register everyone and everything, even babies, you never know when loud crying or the smell of baby poop could result in an injury.
-mark
ps: that worker has since been sacked…has probably found a job working with city council, hahaha.
Especially on a flight between Singapore and London…
As Steve Albini once said…
“There’s a special place in hell for people that take babies on airplanes”
Policy adviser to Tim Pallas?
I used to think that until I had a kid of my own. Now my need to continue to have the occasional holiday outweighs my concern for other people.
I don’t mind babies on flights. As long as their parents don’t sit there and ignore the fact that they’re child is screaming for 13 hours, and don’t do a thing about it.
That’s what tamazapan and whisky are for.
I also used to think that until I had my own hellspawn. Now when I hear someone’s screaming baby I take a kind of perverse pleasure in knowing that it’s not my kid.
tamaz doesnt last long enough@ ~3 hrs
Stung for no brakes for the 3rd time in as many weeks today on the way to work… Same black cop car each time all within 100m radius… i swear they sit in that same spot and wait for me to ride past each morning… bright yellow bike is not helpful!
The cop claims he used to ride track and blew up at me when i tried to explain that is use my feet to slow down and when pointed out that my bike isn’t drilled…
Cant wait for my new road bike to arrive in the post this week so i can end this shit! I’m getting over riding down the street looking over my shoulder every 10 seconds… :x :x :x
There is a pretty simple solution to this problem though isn’t there? :evil:
What about just mounting a ‘fake’ brake- a caliper and lever but without cable? Would satisfy your brakeless cravings, and should keep the cops happy!
where is this… i’d rather not be riding anywhere near this street.