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Reg Plates for Bicycles.

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    #62
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Rayne Wooney wrote: »
    Cyclists are almost as bad as the Nazis at this stage

    At least the Nazi's paid their autobahn tax.


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    #63
    OldMrBrennan83
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    #64
    keith16
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    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Road tax.


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    #65
    kneemos
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    keith16 wrote: »
    Road tax.


    Road Tax?


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    #66
    keith16
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Road Tax?

    Ah yeah. That thing what motorists what pay so they can sometimes cycle their bikes on the road ;)


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    #67
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Ah the Aussies - always at the fore front of cycling safety design

    http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/zsdsox2uycpjwnhinqua.jpg

    This one even had wiper blades for those rainy days


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    #68
    Joe prim
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    porsche959 wrote: »
    There needs to be better enforcement of reckless and illegal cyclists' behaviour, but this kind of bureaucracy is simply unnecessary.

    A simple piece of legislation would suffice, allowing any pedestrian to give a clatter of a baseball bat to any cyclist (said cyclist being past puberty) cycling on the footpath,and two clatters in the event that said cyclist is wearing full Tour de France regalia ( or any part thereof)


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    #69
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    keith16 wrote: »
    Ah yeah. That thing what motorists what pay so they can sometimes cycle their bikes on the road ;)


    Seriously, 'road tax'?.. Its taking awhile for the penny to drop isn't it!!.

    [/hint your pay 'motor tax', its based on the emissions of your vehicles 'motor'.. In other words, no one here pays ''road tax'']


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    #70
    Tony Beetroot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Tony Beetroot


    Would reg plates put a stop to the cyclists who think they can break the lights at lackhall Place-Benburb Street junction now?


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    #71
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Tony Beetroot wrote: »
    Would reg plates put a stop to the cyclists who think they can break the lights at lackhall Place-Benburb Street junction now?

    How many cyclists have broken red lights at that junction, hit luas trams and caused untold mayhem to people's journeys? Never mind putting their and others lives at risk?

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/luas-video-shows-collisions-and-near-misses-with-cars-vans-truck-632439.html


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    #72
    Grandpa Hassan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,945 ✭✭✭Grandpa Hassan


    Never going to happen. Ever.


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    #73
    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    You could also register your reg plates, and have reg plates on your reg plates.
    Reg plateception.


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    #74
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,409 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Grandpa Hassan wrote: »
    Never going to happen. Ever.


    Will.


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    #75
    Señor Fancy Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Señor Fancy Pants


    kneemos wrote: »
    Will.

    Wont


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    #76
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,268 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    kneemos wrote: »
    Included in the purchase price,a central registration office and change of ownership etc.
    Plenty of cameras about to spot the "bad cyclists".Also if someone else is riding your bike then the owner remains responsible until they provide their name .
    A possible goldmine in minor fines if half of what I hear about cyclists is true.

    Expensive and complicated.

    The most cost-effective and efficient way to deal with traffic offences, whether they're committed by motorists or cyclists, is to empower Gardaí to administer on-the-spot punishment in the form of a vigorous kick in the crotch.


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    #77
    Grandpa Hassan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,945 ✭✭✭Grandpa Hassan


    kneemos wrote: »
    Will.

    Won't. For all these reasons

    http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=0be4970aa08c1410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD

    And Dublin bikes would have to be scrapped, of course. And it is expanding

    All the necessary laws are already there. The guards just don't enforce them


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    #78
    Roger_007
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    Jep Gambardella wrote: »
    Expensive and complicated.

    The most cost-effective and efficient way to deal with traffic offences, whether they're committed by motorists or cyclists, is to empower Gardaí to administer on-the-spot punishment in the form of a vigorous kick in the crotch.

    That would be unfair.........if a woman got a kick in the crotch where a man gets a kick in the crotch, she wouldn't be getting a kick at all...........discrimination.:eek:


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    #79
    [Deleted User]
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    Señor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Can we not just introduce biotagging?

    Make it mandatory for everyone in the country to have a GPS chip with personal information on it.

    It sends real time info to a central server in Garda HQ. Anyone that reports an act that contravenes a law, with a date, time and location.

    The numpty at GHQ can search the system and see whose biotag was at the reported location at the reported time.

    Everyone has to pay an annual upfront €350 in "biotag update tax". And also rent the device for €30 per calender month.

    The revenue will be amazeballs. Think about the efficiency of it all!

    OP for Prezident!

    Be careful in what what you wish for, chipping dogs is already mandatory.

    It's only a matter of time before they start on people, then we'll have scanners at strategic public walkways.

    The police wouldn't even need to leave the station to track the criminals (and anyone else if needed).

    But it could be used to seek out the "undocumented" and deport them!


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    #80
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Be careful in what what you wish for, chipping dogs is already mandatory.

    So is chipping for horses, but who bothers their ar*e actually doing it?

    The masses of abandoned horses and dogs certainly don't have chips.


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    #81
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users Posts: 12,414 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Be careful in what what you wish for, chipping dogs is already mandatory.

    It's only a matter of time before they start on people, then we'll have scanners at strategic public walkways.

    The police wouldn't even need to leave the station to track the criminals (and anyone else if needed).

    But it could be used to seek out the "undocumented" and deport them!

    Deport all the dogs. That'll learn em to go out without their reg plate.


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    #82
    Danjamin1
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Danjamin1


    The stupidity, redundancy & repetitiveness of this thread is awe-inspiring.


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    #83
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,409 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Danjamin1 wrote: »
    The stupidity, redundancy & repetitiveness of this thread is awe-inspiring.


    Never underestimate.


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    #84
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Rayne Wooney wrote: »
    Cyclists are almost as bad as the Nazis at this stage

    At least the Nazis didn't wear lycra.


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    #85
    Boom_Bap
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    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    How many cyclists have broken red lights at that junction, hit luas trams and caused untold mayhem to people's journeys? Never mind putting their and others lives at risk?

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/luas-video-shows-collisions-and-near-misses-with-cars-vans-truck-632439.html

    There is a special camera there now that picks up people (motorists and cyclists) breaking the lights, speeding and blocking the yella boxes.
    It's been in operation only a couple of days.

    The reg plate factory will make a fortune on this policy given the amount of stolen bikes there are in Ireland.


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    #86
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Boom_Bap wrote: »

    The reg plate factory will make a fortune on this policy given the amount of stolen bikes there are in Ireland.

    Bicycles already have serial numbers on the frame, not that that helps much with theft.
    Bicycle theft is way way down the list of priorities for the Gardai.


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    #87
    Michael D Not Higgins
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    At least the Nazis didn't wear lycra.

    You wouldn't get Hitler listening to jungle music at 3 in the morning.


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    #88
    Joe prim
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    Danjamin1 wrote: »
    The stupidity, redundancy & repetitiveness of this thread is awe-inspiring.


    You can say that again
    You can say that again
    You can say that again
    You can say that again


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