Road Racing stopped by South Torkshire Police

Pablo Rubio

Looks like anti cycling lobby getting a hold over there too.


http://news.sky.com/story/1532785/complaints-halt-yorkshire-cycling-races

easygoing39

So its like Fingal really.Years racing around NCD and suddening its all banned.

Beasty

easygoing39 wrote: »

So its like Fingal really.Years racing around NCD and suddening its all banned.

Actually it's not like Fingal at all. In South Yorkshire the police have always supported racing. They have not "banned" it at all. What has happened is the local section of British Cycling has suspended racing and arranged a meeting with the police and local authority with a view to resolving the issue in a way that would deal with any concerns

easygoing39

@ Beasty,fair enough,sorry if I got the wrong end of the stick.
Pity the guards of NCD weren't like the South Yorkshire lads.

oakley2097

Weepsie wrote: »

Second comment in that article is basically Cyclists don't pay road tax, sigh.

But We don't pay road tax, nobody does

oakley2097

anti cyclists can be anti cyclist all they want, bicycles will win in the end and they will have to cycle even if it takes 10 years

tomasrojo

On the subject of road tax, George Osborne announced a plan in the last UK budget to ring-fence the revenue raised from Vehicle Excise Duty and reserve it entirely for road building and repair, rather than go into the overall pool of tax revenue.

Of course, this VED revenue is not nearly enough to do all the road building and repair in the UK, and it also makes it harder for governments to balance the overall budget year by year (they don't need to do the same amount of road building every year).

So, if this change is made, his successor, I imagine will undo it (just as the Road Fund was abandoned about eighty years ago), since it's cumbersome and unnecessary and really is just political pandering to a group of ignoramuses.

Anyway, just thought I'd get that off my chest.

oakley2097

do you feel better now tomaasrojo ?

tomasrojo

Somewhat.

The "cyclists don't pay road tax" business in the UK could get worse though.

diomed

Is that combine harvesters can be used on roads, and bicycles can not?

Lusk_Doyle

Weepsie wrote: »

Oh I know, its just pointing out the stereotypical anti cyclist ranter who managed to defeat their own argument by being incorrect

They don't really defeat their own argument though cos the audience to which they pander to, believes them to be correct and the point (incorrect as it might be) gets ingrained, spread and repeated ad nauseum and therefore (IMO) it is a successful argument as only "fanatical" cyclists argue against it. But sure, those lads break red lights, etc.

rp

tomasrojo wrote: »

The "cyclists don't pay road tax" business in the UK could get worse though.

Might be a good thing in some ways: when they've used up all the road tax money, it'll be blatantly obvious when they start raid the general taxation kitty again.