freediver wrote on Jun 12
th, 2018 at 12:33pm:
Quote:I agree with Valkie. Number plates for bikes must become mandatory. And, imo, bike riders/owners should also pay rego, insurance, the whole deal.
The cost of the paperwork would be an order of magnitude higher than what you can get a new bike for. This is nanny state gone crazy.
Don't you think it's a bit of a hysterical over-reaction to call them thugs?
Are you attempting to bait me?
Where, in my initial post (or subsequent for that matter) did I use the word 'thug' ?
So whose 'hysterical overreaction' are you referring to?
We differ in our interpretation of 'nanny state gone crazy'.
The nanny state gone absurd is nowhere more evident than a government telling motorised vehicles of massive weight and power on overcrowded roads, to watch out for the difficult to see, almost two or even one dimensional bike-riding figure in amongst forests of hoardings, advertisement (many flashing) road signs, other vehicles of varying sizes, side roads, merging roads, traffic lights, three lanes of packed vehicles
Maybe it's a form of population culling, this life-risking bike riding?
Oh, but it makes bike riders healthier, fitter
Sure, sucking up diesel and road fumes has always been recognised as a healthy, life prolonging pursuit said no one
I enjoy bike riding. Haven't done any for a while. But even on country roads with clear line of sight, fresh air, the risks were there. Weaving in and out of bumper to bumper traffic, trucks of every description, breathing in constant toxins, hated and feared by other road users --- how would that be described? Suicidal? Provocative? Dangerous? Stress causing and stress laden ? Why would anyone do it, unless forced to by total poverty?