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I do wonder quite what you're doing on a cycling forum, BFF.
Is this some kind of elaborate wind-up? If so, I don't really get it.
Is this some kind of elaborate wind-up? If so, I don't really get it.
Call me whacko doctor but I come on a cycling forum because I cycle.I do wonder quite what you're doing on a cycling forum, BFF.
Is this some kind of elaborate wind-up? If so, I don't really get it.
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In my pocket, I have a few bob which is unusual because I only have Thai Baht; no £.s.d. and no £.p. 'A few bob' to me and many others means a small amount of money just as road tax means that disc displayed in the car window.
'A few bob' and 'road tax' are now part of our language so live with it. If you have time on your hands, please inform all motor manufacturers, motoring journalists and anyone else to stop quoting mpg figures - fuel has been sold in litres for a long time.
If you think about this logically then it would make sense to have tax on bikes because it wouldnt change a thing.
Getting riled by people referring to Road Tax? I call it Road Tax. Everyone I know does. I refer to my V5 as my logbook. Almost everyone does. I refer to my 'PIN Number', even though I know that's tautology. I think of my Council Charge as Rates. Many people do. People refer to Continental Europe and 'Europe' as though we somehow live elsewhere.... It really isn't a big deal. Let it go.
Are you defending me there Adrian or asking someone to slag me off in more detail ?
If you think about this logically then it would make sense to have tax on bikes because it wouldnt change a thing.
The amount of VED you pay depends on the emmisions of your vehicle, thats why electric cars dont pay anything. On that basis, if bicycles were charged for VED, we would not pay anything because we emmit no emmisions (apart from the odd fart). So I dont understand why people argue about not charging bikes VED because even if the government did, it wouldnt change anything (just create a lot of unneccesary paperwork).
Another thing to think about is that if someone in a G-Wiz passes you and shouts "Get off the f*cking road, you don't pat road tax!" (They would have time to say all that), then you could simply increase your speed to 25mph which the electric turd is limited to and explain that neither does the twonk driving the little peice of roadkill.
Yes, motorists are taxed until the pips squesk, but rightly so.
Almost 50% of the population are below average intelligence.
The biggest myth of all - they are in fact very heavily subsidised!
Depending on sources, the total cost of running a car has dropped dramatically and in terms of income and disposable income is cheaper than at any time in the last fifteen to twenty years.
Had an intersting discussion on this with a guy at work.... after he started I simply asked how much they should pay?
He reckoned about £50!
Then ask if that is for all Band A vehicles, and point out that it is more than Band A, B or C vehicles, therefore these would have to rise in a similar way!
Then of course this escalates.
Finally point out that he is actually arguing for a rise for all VED bands!
- but WHY does he think that? Isn't he simply ignorant of the whole structure of VED charges. Aren't those calling for VED on bicycles really calling for a punitive, spiteful, form of registration, in the hope that it would reduce the number of cyclists on the roads getting in their way? What about the effect on childrens cycling? Does anyone seriously think a registration scheme is practical.