Make cyclists register their cycles and pay ACC

[FJRider]

It was a quote/reply to a post with my observation of the comment the quoted member made, nothing more. There my interest ended. If you choose to infer/imply/question my post ... feel free.

[modboy]

I rest my case

You have no case - that was my point (not so subtle, yet obviously missed by you).

The Govt/ACC have arbitarily singled out motorcyclists as a group. Your suggestion is just the same.

Anyone suggesting cyclists should be licensed needs to know in simple crude terms how idiotic the idea is. I make no apologies for treating the suggestion with the contempt it deserves. Don't take it personally.

It's been dealt with here to the point of boredom. Yet some people still feel the need to bang on about it.

Dead Horse <<<--- Flog!

[Tezz]

You have no case - that was my point (not so subtle, yet obviously missed by you).

The Govt/ACC have arbitarily singled out motorcyclists as a group. Your suggestion is just the same.

Anyone suggesting cyclists should be licensed needs to know in simple crude terms how idiotic the idea is. I make no apologies for treating the suggestion with the contempt it deserves. Don't take it personally.

It's been dealt with here to the point of boredom. Yet some people still feel the need to bang on about it.

Dead Horse <<<--- Flog!

I just love people who put down credible ideas but never proffer their own. I am not singling out cyclists; I am merely trying to spread the burden around more equitably. As I have said many times, the best thing would be to scrap ACC, but that just isn't going to happen in this socialist country. Key hasn't the balls for that; he wouldn't even reverse the smacking law.

[FJRider]

Anyone suggesting cyclists should be licensed needs to know in simple crude terms how idiotic the idea is. I make no apologies for treating the suggestion with the contempt it deserves. Don't take it personally.

Singapore has had bicycle registration in law for some years now. Quite successfully actually. Aside from extra revenue gathered, bike theft dropped dramaticly... and cyclists became more law abiding when they found they could be indentified more easily (in photos).

Closed minds get my contempt too ...

[Chrislost]

i rode to school from ages 10-17. i fell off a few times but never went hospital or anything. what kind of ACC do people think I should of been paying?

If you were riding on the road, 3 abreast, then you should pay levys

[SARGE]

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Then by my observations of cyclists to date ... there are many cyclists on the road that shouldn't be ...

cmon .. just how many pushies has anyone ever seen that have actually stopped at a red light ????? i drive the CBD/ Eastern Subs daily and have YET to see anyone in lycra obey ONE traffic signal..

run the gaytard down i say..then insist the attending officer give the fag a ticket for running a stop light/ sign

i'll get my $5000+ a year out in sheer entertainment value

[McJim]

Not where I live, they have a special cycle lane on the footpath but they still choose to use the road. Every other road user pays and pays ACC through wages etc, so why are cyclists exempt?

Do you think we're all unemployed coz we ride bicycles? Weirdo.

I choose to ride my bicycle on the road coz the wankstains in modified cars INSIST on smashin their beer bottles on the cycle lanes/paths.

If this is the general attitude of motorcyclists then I'll just have to come out in support of shonky Johnkey and Smick Nith (since I only face a $250 price hike due to me riding a sub 600cc bike).

The reason people make sweeping coments about ALL cyclists being idiots on the road is that they only notcie the ones that cause them problems. Like fucktard motorists and truckies most of the time they don't look for 'em and don't see 'em but just kill 'em and make orphans just the fuckin' same.

Many cyclists are sensible road users and haven't had a spill in decades.

So where the fuck is my tax going if it's not to pay for the hospitals?

[SARGE]

Do you think we're all unemployed coz we ride bicycles? Weirdo.

god please dont tell me you wear lycra

[BMWST?]

The car was in the wrong, but that's not the point.

what is the point.?The car is in the wrong in lots of motorcycle accidents too.Its that fact that we can argue that some subsidy is payable by car drivers,if you accept that each group is self funding

[FJRider]

cmon .. just how many pushies has anyone ever seen that have actually stopped at a red light ????? i drive the CBD/ Eastern Subs daily and have YET to see anyone in lycra obey ONE traffic signal..

run the gaytard down i say..then insist the attending officer give the fag a ticket for running a stop light/ sign

i'll get my $5000+ a year out in sheer entertainment value

I like to flag them down and ask them what makes them exempt from the law.

[SARGE]

I like to flag them down and ask them what makes them exempt from the law.

but but but .. that WOULDNT BE PC!!!! .. you might hurt the poor dear's feelings then we'd have to front up for his freaking therapy

[McJim]

I like to flag them down and ask them what makes them exempt from the law.

Have you ever exceeded 100kph? If so what makes you exempt from the law?

[FJRider]

Have you ever exceeded 100kph? If so what makes you exempt from the law?

Running a red light on a push bike carries the same penalty in court.... as if done on a motorcycle. Regarding speed limits ... I know the rules, and invite any cyclist to flag me down and question me on any speeding I may have been seen doing.

[modboy]

I just love people who put down credible ideas but never proffer their own. I am not singling out cyclists; I am merely trying to spread the burden around more equitably. As I have said many times, the best thing would be to scrap ACC, but that just isn't going to happen in this socialist country. Key hasn't the balls for that; he wouldn't even reverse the smacking law.

NZ has always been a socialist country and it always will be (and you have greatly benefited from this). Stop whining about it - or fuck off and live somewhere else.

In anycase - it's now fairly obvious Tezz that you have your own flawed political agenda - let me guess - Libertarian - oh dear !

I think you're on the wrong website mate. Don't you pack of fuckwits have your own rock that you normally exist under - why don't you go back there instead of trolling KB.

Furthermore it's not incumbent upon me in anyway whatsoever to "proffer" any idea just because I don't like the one already "proffered" by others. If this is an example of the flawed kind of fuckwittery that your politics teaches you, perhaps you should go back and do Logic101.

[modboy]

Singapore has had bicycle registration in law for some years now. Quite successfully actually. Aside from extra revenue gathered, bike theft dropped dramaticly... and cyclists became more law abiding when they found they could be indentified more easily (in photos).

Closed minds get my contempt too ...

Who fucking cares. Go live in Singapore then - idiot.