Thread: Cyclist aware drivers... are you one?

so glad I only have one anti bikes on roads member living near me.........

The purported bike rego plate scheme wouldn't last a month before the police demand it be shut down. Imagine the outpourings from aggrieved petrol heads about seeing a bike inches outside a bike lane. Nuisance reporting would drown out the few actually useful reports. Have you got your daily tally of nuisance reporting up yet?

Originally Posted by weeds

so glad I only have one anti bikes on roads member living near me.........

Just to make things a little clearer, I'm not anti cycle, I'm pro responsibility. Out there, on the streets, you see it every day. Cyclists being irresponsible. Not all, not most but a greater proportion than irresponsible motorists. A registration marker of some sort identifying them if/when their arrogance brings them into conflict may assist to reduce their number of incidents and probably improve their safety. What would you want? A fine in the mail telling you to be more responsible or a bus having the last word (refer to my previous post of a fellow I knew who had a difference of opinion with a bus).

If cycles that use the road do not have registration, why should cars?

Another story. A fellow I know bought a car. Unregistered. It was in Melbourne. It had a roadworthy. It had an UVP. He drove it to Bendigo (where he lived) via a toll road to get registered.
The next day, he rang the toll company to pay the toll. As the vehicle did not have any plates on it, the automated phone system did not allow him to progress (It couldn't understand "unregistered") and he gave up. Can you understand the confusion if the only thing that identifies a vehicle would be the description "a white sedan"? Speed and red light cameras would be useless.

I'm changing my stance. I'll side with the cyclists. They've gotten rid of registration labels. Now it's time to get rid of registration plates.

Originally Posted by davidsonsm

But even worst, the rego plate might impede aerodynamics. And add weight.

Pedal harder. It'll get you fitter.

I don't complain about the extra fuel I'm using lugging those big, weighty registration plates around on the Landy.

Hey, perhaps I should. Registration plates are contributing to the CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Come to think of it, cyclists are contributing to global warming and climate change as well. Maybe they should refrain from breathing whilst riding.

Ill go back to a prior point. Its a question of consequence. Car goes viral - can be very bad. Bike goes viral - less so.

I don't think the authorities want to administer it. I don't believe there are any other nations that have bike rego. Why an issue here? What is so unusual about Australia (in relation to bike intolerance). I could answer that one quite simply, but I'll refrain.

It is only NZ and AU that have mandatory helmet laws I believe. Strange one that. Bloody hell we need them with some of the attitudes towards us out there.

Actually a good read:

http://m.smh.com.au/executive-style/...614-20bk6.html

Many won't be able to read it though, as their one eye will prevent them from focusing.

You can perhaps tell I'm passionate about this issue. Nobody has offered me a logical explanation as why australia is different to the rest of the world. Both in terms of attitude and laws.

And on a psychological level why does a registered bike, change driver attitudes.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Out there, on the streets, you see it every day. Cyclists being irresponsible. Not all, not most but a greater proportion than irresponsible motorists.

Mick, you keep asserting this and yet you've not presented one scrap of evidence to support your argument.

In my running around I'd say the opposite is true, but that's just my observation.

Originally Posted by davidsonsm

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I don't think the authorities want to administer it. I don't believe there are any other nations that have bike rego. Why an issue here? What is so unusual about Australia (in relation to bike intolerance). I could answer that one quite simply, but I'll refrain.

It is only NZ and AU that have mandatory helmet laws I believe. Strange one that. Bloody hell we need them with some of the attitudes towards us out there.

Actually I'd like to hear why you think there is so much intolerance, bike and otherwise.

It's a question that vexes me.

What has happened to make Aussies so wanting to control what others do and regulate and suppress those that aren't exactly like them ?

We see it when things go slightly awry, when someone gets lost or injured when doing something slightly outside the norms of society.
"Make them pay for the rescue" "it should be banned" "They should be licensed" "we need a new rule/regulation to stop this/that/whatever" and on it goes.

All of us are being regulated out of living, we'll just end up existing, and that isn't a life, or at least not how I wish to live.