All too often in towns cyclists are a law unto themselves. Maybe its time to start charging them to use the roads and make them carry some sort of registration plate?
While I'm a cyclist, too, I mostly agree with your sentiments, Eldon--other than charging to use the roads. Nooooooo! I already do--it's called taxes. I would be totally open to carrying some sort of registration plate, however. While I do pay taxes, I also pay registration on my car and my motorcycles so why not my bicycle? I completely agree that there are far too many cyclists who run amok and ride however the heck they want. On more than one occasion while driving in my car, I've seen a cyclist do some stupid thing like run a stop sign. I slow, roll down my window, and give 'em the what for and say he/she's giving us all a bad name. Just to muck things up even more in Tucson, the city just ok'd a pilot project allowing electric scooters, hundreds of 'em. Yikes. I suspect there will be more than a few "unintended consequences".
We've got the e scooters here, total chaos downtown trying to drive especially on the weekends. Hundreds of 10-12 year olds or younger whipping in and out of traffic at 20 mph with no regards to any traffic rules. What can the police do, no license or official ID, can't handcuff them and tie up an officer untill the "parents" arrive only to give the officer an earful of verbal abuse. An app available to police to read the QR code of e scooter and a picture of the cleary underage rider, so 4 strikes and the scooter company is going to take a hit, not going to happen, as the scooter company is making millions on kids.
The level of violence to nick this scooter is astonishing! https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=488185321973296
On the 15th of September 1940, the Battle of Britain reached its peak with 1500 British and German aircraft fighting over the skies of London and the home counties: The wonderful sound of the Spitfire's Merlin engine will be recreated this Battle of Britain Sunday by the Airmen who laid down their lives. They'll be spinning in their graves at the abysmal state of this fucking country!
My rant for today is sports bike riders. Whilst riding through the dales on my way home after leaving @andypandy a guy on a sports bike started an overtake move as we were approaching a left hand corner. He was running so hard into the corner as he passed me that he had to stand his bike up which meant I had to break hard to miss him before he strayed across into the oncoming lane. Lucky for him there was no oncoming traffic. What a knob....His mate who was following shook his head and dropped back for a while before making a safe overtake. Why do these guys do this? wessa
I understand your frustration Wessa but to be honest I don't think that sort of riding is restricted to sports bike riders, I was following two guys on Triumphs last weekend, one on what looked like a Bonny of some sort and the first "69" plate I've seen and his buddy in front of him riding a Rocket, well he overtook a car and a van at the same time coming into a long left hander, he'd only just got passed when a car came the other way, he was very lucky but a prize knob too.
I guess we've all done that at some time or another been riding constantly for for 40 odd years and a ex instructer and I still do that on the odd occasion I put it down to to the little devil that lives in your throtel hand glove just been lucky so far.
Jesus H Christ DD, how on earth has that been allowed to happen, first I'd heard of this, the case being dropped I mean, can you imagine what his wife and family are feeling, I'm not going to mention p#&%y's but they have literally gotten away with murder here, un-fricken-believable
They're still all a bunch of thieving f#£%&r's and a young copper with a young family will never see his kid grow up,
They're still all a bunch of thieving f#£%&r's and a young copper with a young family will never see his kid grow up,
