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Cycling Tax and Insurance

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  • #32
    zzzzzzzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭zzzzzzzz


    flickerx wrote: »
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  • #33
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭kenmc


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    teehee!


  • #34
    Disky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Disky


    kenmc wrote: »
    Will you feel better if we all agree with you, or are you just looking for an argument?

    That depends, what if I told you I was a Guard.

    You would agree with everything I said, no?


  • #35
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Disky wrote:
    Join Date: Jun 2009
    Posts: 8
    Do you think tax and mandatory insurance should be introduced for bicycles Disky? Hard to see the point of your post beyond having a bit of a troll on a Friday TBH.

    If you actually did a search you would see there was a 19 page thread on this very question where the general consensus was "no."


  • #36
    unionman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭unionman


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    Disky wrote: »
    How long before tax and insurance is required for riding a bicycle??

    I get the impresson that most posters here would welcome such a development, a lot of people on high horses.
    Disky wrote: »
    You think not? I will wager you €50 that a tax will be brought in within the next 5 years.
    Disky wrote: »
    Well, I read through a thread on some fella getting a summons for breaking a traffic light. Most people seemed to think that the death penalty was an option...... Applying that worldview to this situation I then drew my conclusion highlighted aove.
    Disky wrote: »
    So you think a licence should be introduced?? Maybe they could appeal to the snobs by including how many hours of Eurosport you watch every summer, or even the amount you have splashed on some carbon frame to save 500 grams, vital when you are hauling 17st up some hill.

    Lets face it, there are people who ride a bicycle and then there are CYCLISTS. Lets get that straight, I basically think all non CYCLISTS should be put off the road.



    Arrest Daddy?


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  • #37
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,277 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


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  • #38
    BeerNut
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    Disky wrote: »
    That depends, what if I told you I was a Guard.

    You would agree with everything I said, no?
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  • #39
    Disky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Disky


    kenmc wrote: »
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    teehee!

    But this revenue could be used to provide hospital beds.

    Are you seriously suggesting that you would prefer children to lie in toilets?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/heal-our-hospitals/5412458/Row-as-terminally-ill-woman-given-bed-in-hospital-bathroom.html


  • #40
    zzzzzzzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭zzzzzzzz


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  • #41
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Disky wrote: »
    So you think a licence should be introduced?? Maybe they could appeal to the snobs by including how many hours of Eurosport you watch every summer, or even the amount you have splashed on some carbon frame to save 500 grams, vital when you are hauling 17st up some hill.

    Lets face it, there are people who ride a bicycle and then there are CYCLISTS. Lets get that straight, I basically think all non CYCLISTS should be put off the road.



    Arrest Daddy?

    No. this is the way it would work.

    Guard stops 4 year old on pink fixie and demands to see licence and prooof of insurance.

    4 year old looks at Guard

    Guard asks four year old for name and address

    4 Year old gives name, can't for the life of her remember address

    Guard suspects said cyclist is operating a pedal cycle without tax or insurance and confiscates bike under Section 108 of the RTA 1961 using force if necessary

    Editorial appears in local paper condemning parents for the delinquency of their 4 year old kids

    Guard gets promoted

    Money raised gets us out of the recession!


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  • #42
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭kenmc


    Disky wrote: »
    But this revenue could be used to provide hospital beds.

    Are you seriously suggesting that you would prefer children to lie in toilets?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/heal-our-hospitals/5412458/Row-as-terminally-ill-woman-given-bed-in-hospital-bathroom.html
    Thats in Liverpool, so our tax would not help at all, seeing as it's a different country.


  • #43
    unionman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭unionman


    Disky wrote: »
    But this revenue could be used to provide hospital beds.

    Are you seriously suggesting that you would prefer children to lie in toilets?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/heal-our-hospitals/5412458/Row-as-terminally-ill-woman-given-bed-in-hospital-bathroom.html

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  • #44
    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    el tonto wrote: »
    World's longest sausage:

    Cake, Sausage and Coke, who is bringing the beer?


  • #45
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Disky wrote: »
    That depends, what if I told you I was a Guard.

    You would agree with everything I said, no?

    I'd say you are exactly what's to be expected coming out of Templemore and are undoubtedly on course to be Commissioner some day.......


  • #46
    Disky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Disky


    blorg wrote: »
    Do you think tax and mandatory insurance should be introduced for bicycles Disky?

    Of course not. And I don't think that cyclists should be summoned for breaking a light, or for not having a light at night.

    You see I am not one of these little Hitler types that seem to swarm all over this forum.


  • #47
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,507 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    tunney wrote: »
    Think its going to rain tomorrow.

    That 180km TT is going to be fun. Maybe you should do it in a wetsuit.


  • #48
    unionman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭unionman


    Disky wrote: »
    Of course not. And I don't think that cyclists should be summoned for breaking a light, or for not having a light at night.

    You see I am not one of these little Hitler types that seem to swarm all over this forum.

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  • #49
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭kenmc


    Disky wrote: »
    You see I am not one of these little Hitler types that seem to swarm all over this forum.
    Well in that case you're not allowed in here.


  • #50
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,277 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


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  • #51
    niceonetom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭niceonetom


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    FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCK

    tonto's fast


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  • #52
    rottenhat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,352 ✭✭✭rottenhat


    niceonetom wrote: »
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    Sorry Tom, too slow...


  • #53
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭kenmc


    SNAP!


  • #54
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,277 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    @niceonetom. You'll never beat me in a sprint if you keep that up.


  • #55
    72hundred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭72hundred


    Fcuk sake GODWIN's law in only a few posts, wow. Is that a cycling forum record?


  • #56
    Disky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Disky


    Jawgap wrote: »
    I'd say you are exactly what's to be expected coming out of Templemore and are undoubtedly on course to be Commissioner some day.......


    How dare you mock my post. I am a GARDA.

    I say whats what. I demand respect. I think a new law should be introduced;

    the "this person refused to grovel" rule. At least two years in the JOY should result from what I consider a breach.


  • #57
    rottenhat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,352 ✭✭✭rottenhat


    kenmc wrote: »
    SNAP!

    Ken wins. Can we play Monopoly now?


  • #58
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭kenmc


    Anyway, back on topic a bit, where can I get a carbon bike-tax disk holder? And where should it go? On the seatpost? Or under the crossbar?


  • #59
    unionman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭unionman


    rottenhat wrote: »
    Ken wins. Can we play Monopoly now?

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  • #60
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Disky wrote: »
    But this revenue could be used to provide hospital beds.

    Are you seriously suggesting that you would prefer children to lie in toilets?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/heal-our-hospitals/5412458/Row-as-terminally-ill-woman-given-bed-in-hospital-bathroom.html

    Maybe if more people cycled more often there'd be less lifestyle related illnesses - freeing up more bednights and costing the taxpayer a lot less?

    Costs about 5 grand and usually zero bednights to treat a broken leg - it costs nearly 30 grand to treat someone who is suffering from coronary heart disease - that's just health costs.


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  • #61
    unionman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭unionman


    el tonto wrote: »
    @niceonetom. You'll never beat me in a sprint if you keep that up.

    I beat you to a pic of the Fuhrer (though that should not be taken as a challenge to a sprint:o)


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