"Dinsdale Pirana" <D...@m...mori.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:27:54 +0000 (UTC), Kaizer Solzay
> <o...@l...apana.org.au> wrote in aus.general:
>
>>
>>Maybe it's time to make people who want to ride bicycles on public roads
>>have a form of registration which includes taking part in a motorcycle-style
>>training course before being allowed to have a 'license'?
>
>
> Same old chestnut. Most adults who ride bicycles on the road also have
> a car.motorcycle licence. The cost of bicycle registration (based on
> weight) would not be economical to collect.
>
> Road as are NOT paid for by registration or petrol excise they are
> largely subsidised by all taxpayers.
>
> Personally I have never been held up by a cyclist for more than a few
> seconds and anybody who stresses over those few seconds delay really
> needs to get a grip on reality (perhaps while they wait at the next
> set of traffic lights?)

A rego plate is so they can be booked
when they ride throught red lights,
skip up on the footpath,
charge onto the pedestrian crossing in front of a car that had a turn arrow,
which only just missed them
nearly clock a greyhair waiting on the other side
while the rider swerved and wobbled and looked indignantly over their shoulder
then 30 metres later swerve wide onto a side road
causing a tradesmans ute and the car behind them to crashstop
Then giving all and sundry the finger.

The confidence they continually demonstrate
in my ability to react to random actions
and thus avoid crushing their fragile bodies into pulp
is most touching.
However , I do so wish they wouldn't.
It is entirely selfish on my part.
I dislike paperwork.