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Should they have to pay road tax & insurance

what they should have above anything else is lights - back and front - and a heavy fine if they don't have them while out at night!!!

Yes,and have number plates,and all should be sold with lights,proper ones not the silly little flashing ones which are sometimes fitted.**M**.

a registration plate is being considered by the powers that be,but insurance while riding on the road and pavements would be an idea so that people knocked over by a cyclist would be able to claim if injured.
Fred

been thinking about it - yes, they should pay something - after all there are now cycle lanes and cycle paths everywhere and as for insurance, a cyclist colliding with a person or a car can cause quite a lot of damage, so yes for insurance too.

So insurance, road tax and lights for me please!

I agree Anne, teenagers are the worst for no lights and they wear dark clothing.

Hi Pablo, maybe not a road tax but perhaps there should be some kind of insurance. I ride my horse on the road and i have liability and accident insurance but insurance isnt compulsory

Yvonne
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In my humble opinion the answer is yes for the following reasons:

1. Cyclists use the roads and therefore should pay for using them, obviously not as much as us drivers but a small amount say £10 per year.

2. Cyclists should have to pay insurance because, imagine the following scenario:

You are driving along following the rules of the road and driving perfectly legally when you stop at a red traffic light and a cyclist rides past you accross the junction into the side of a vehicle that is quite legally driven through a green light damaging that vehicle which results in a considerable cost to the driver of said vehicle. Who should pay up.................The cyclist of course but with no insurance etc who will chase him/her up for the costs...............No one.
The poor driver will then have to contact his Insurance to make a claim which will probably end up with the driver loosing all or part of his no claims discount.

Another thing that annoys me about cyclists is that when riding along roads they tend to do so 2 or three abreast and they have no thought for the motorist who has paid to be on the road.

Eldrick the font of all knowledge may know the answers to this.

No I am not anti-cyclist as I have a bike and use it to get to and from work on a daily basis, and would if I had to pay for road tax and Insurance.

What do you think?

Paul

I do agree, although I think cycling should be encouraged, a test, and insurance make sense.
Just a thought, but do you have to be insured to drive one of those mobilty scooters?
or take any sort of driving test, or even instruction.?

my Mum had a mobility scooter - she had no lessons other than a demonstration - I presume you are alluding to some of these "elderly boy racers" and females who plough through everything and everyone as if they have a God given right so to do!!

I think they are trying to get something done about that because "Some, Not All" are a Bl--dy menace to other people.**M**.

I think they should have respect for car drivers. I followed 1 that was riding in the middle of the road mp3 player on so didnt even know i was behind him and when he turned off into another road he did not even give an arm signal grrrrrrr. To top it all off he had his helmet on the handle bars of his bike lol. Lynette xx

As I said I think it would be a good idea but bi would be a logistical nightmare to start it and enforce the scheme.
Cyclists who also ride on footpaths should be made to dismount and push them.
One comment That I heard from a collegue of mine when talking about this subject was "I ride on the paths 'cos the roads are too dangerous to ride on" So does that make the pavements too dangerous to walk on?

Paul

Cycle lanes - many of these are paid for by Sustrans, a cycling organisation, not the tax-payer. Sustrans recently benefited from £500,000 to be used for cycle lane provision & other cycling benefits.

The only one holding up the queue is another car - not a cyclist. Give us a bit of space please.

Oh we have a cyclist on do you think you should pay Insurance or not?
If not why not?

Cycle lanes AREN'T everywhere - I have to cycle down a main road to get to work, I have to resort to the pavement if it's busy as lorries thunder along there and the road is all chewed up from heavy use, another hazard for cyclists.

Tell me Paul - where do I get such cover & indeed, what do you expect to be covered by such a policy?

Perhaps we should be awarded some sort of 'credit' for doing our little bit for the climate - unlike our four-wheeled brothers, who worry only about the fuel price rises.

but would you pay insurance?

Dermot as I said earlier it would be a logistical nightmare to do.
If it could be done then would you be prepared to pay for the insurance, I would.

Paul - you're on the wrong board I think. There is another posting elsewhere entitled: 'Answer a question with another question'.

No Dermot I think I'm on the right board.

And its not just fuel price rises its everything to do with road pricing such as road tax, insurance,rising fuel prices, and the state of the roads in this country.


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