How i educated a motorist.

[Alun]

FPC, it's certainly very public spirited of you to educate motorists in this way, even putting yourself in danger to prove a point to a single motorist. I afraid that one day the inevitable will happen and a car will run into you, and you will be seriously injured or even killed. I'd just like to express my gratitude whilst you're still here!

 

[steveindenmark]

That is 2 knee jerk reactions I have found on this forum now:

1) I don`t wear a helmet on a bike.

2) Drivers actually pay road tax to drive wherever they want on the road.

I know if I want a reaction on here, I can use either of those sentences.

It was a flippant remark. I should have said that they are also road users and are allowed to drive on the road. Being an ex police officer i am aware that paying road tax does not allow free reign over the highway.

Steve

 

[BSRU]

That is 2 knee jerk reactions I have found on this forum now:

1) I don`t wear a helmet on a bike.

2) Drivers actually pay road tax to drive wherever they want on the road.

I know if I want a reaction on here, I can use either of those sentences.

It was a flippant remark. I should have said that they are also road users and are allowed to drive on the road. Being an ex police officer i am aware that paying road tax does not allow free reign over the highway.

Steve

Who pays this mystical road tax you mention?
Some drivers pay vehicle excise duty or vehicle tax but no-one pays road tax, well not since the before the days of dads army.
Note some drivers not all, many cars these days are zero rated for VED, so should they get of the road as well?

 

[dodgy]

The "Zombies" are you so nicely put it actually pay road tax to drive wherever they want on the road.

You're new to cycling aren't you? If not, I am stunned.

 

[Alun]

That is 2 knee jerk reactions I have found on this forum now:

1) I don`t wear a helmet on a bike.

2) Drivers actually pay road tax to drive wherever they want on the road.

I know if I want a reaction on here, I can use either of those sentences.

It was a flippant remark. I should have said that they are also road users and are allowed to drive on the road. Being an ex police officer i am aware that paying road tax does not allow free reign over the highway.

Steve

Talk of "Red Light Jumping" raises the temperature on here as well !

 

[Bman]

Yep, its panto season!!!!

I've paid for two lots of V.E.D this year, plus there's the little bit of tax i pay on the petrol for my car. (BMW 740i, 24mpg average ... 8500 miles last year ... yep, i've contributed to *damaging* my little patch
of the road).

FTFY

 

[Linford]

FTFY

Putting it in those terms Bongman, We all 'damage' the planet

 

[Sara_H]

Being an ex police officer i am aware that paying road tax does not allow free reign over the highway.

Steve

Ahhhhhh........ that explains it.

 

[col]

I suppose we still have to buy a tax disk, even though its not all used for what it origionally was used for?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

my car. (BMW 740i, 24mpg averag.

 

[Muddyfox]

you should go cycling with matthew t .. you'd make a right pair

 

[Matthew_T]

you should go cycling with matthew t .. you'd make a right pair

Instead of 'good cop, bad cop' it would be 'good cyclist, bad cyclist'. Its up to you to guess which is which.

 

[akb]

Being an ex police officer i am aware that paying road tax does

Being an ex police officer, you should know that Road Tax was abolished some years ago...!

 

[gaz]

I suppose we still have to buy a tax disk, even though its not all used for what it origionally was used for?

It's still has it's orginal purpose. To see if a motorised vehicle is licensed to use the roads. It has had that purpose in the UK since 1920.

 

[steveindenmark]

AKB...Being an EX police officer, why should I need to know that road tax was abolished?

Have a guess where I have lived for the past 16 years?

I really do not keep tabs on the laws of the land over there.

Steve