Roads are for cars, not Lycra louts say SMH

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frensham

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Refreshinglygood said:
does a DH bike cop a rego/3rd party/road user fee?? I know lots of blokes that ride their big bike on the roads to get to the trails.

I think the answer is clear on that.

We will be taken seriously when we combine as a group, loby parliament for better facilities for bikes, and show that there is something in it for the polititians.

Till then, all this talk about rego etc will do nothing but fill the coffer of the government.
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Here's a scenario: Riding your DH bike on the road two abreast (legally) with your mates, chatting away, you don't see the pedestrian step out onto the road until too late - you injure the pedestrian and he/she spends a few days in hospital and then needs physio etc for weeks after. Total and ongoing bill comes to thousands of dollars of which you are 100% liable. Now, imagine you had third party insurance........

You can of course join a cycling group such as Bicycle NSW and get this insurance as part of your membership, but how many of us are doing that?
 
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Now thats a good point. I guess it's less about the individual being responsible for their own insurances, and more back to that point I made earlier about being a more organized group???

takes a bit away from the punk rockedness about mtb though.
 
wombat

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frensham said:
Here's a scenario: Riding your DH bike on the road two abreast (legally) with your mates, chatting away, you don't see the pedestrian step out onto the road until too late - you injure the pedestrian and he/she spends a few days in hospital and then needs physio etc for weeks after. Total and ongoing bill comes to thousands of dollars of which you are 100% liable. Now, imagine you had third party insurance........

You can of course join a cycling group such as Bicycle NSW and get this insurance as part of your membership, but how many of us are doing that?
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Would the vehicle actually be liable though, presuming that the accident was caused by the pedestrian crossing unsafely?
 
BUSHPIG

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"dressed like Cadel Evans"
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what kind of fuckwit has the right to include a professional cyclist into this?
It's lycra, all cyclist wear it!

You don't see rowers or yoga people behaving like this
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That's correct! Because they don't have to put up with ignorant fat drones who don't understand how it feels to get on a bike in 35 degree heat and turn your legs into furnaces.
 
Moggio

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D2R said:
And it continues...

http://digitaledition.wentworthcourier.com.au/

The Wentworth Courier front page: The WAR on CYCLISTS
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The actual article was a bit of a non-event after the big headline... was kind of positive in a way.

Interesting the main list of offences... mainly not wearing a helmet or an approved helmet. Really shows how many people who are being lumped in as "cyclists" are just people who are riding a bike.
 
wombat

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Moggio said:
Really shows how many people who are being lumped in as "cyclists" are just people who are riding a bike.
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Ahh, because they are? They're partaking in the act of cycling, making them cyclists. Just like all the idiots in cars who are 'driving', are 'drivers'. They may not have any interest in cars, nor passion for driving, but they're still driving a car.

Riding bikes as a hobby is not a prerequisite for being a cyclist, we get the stooges too.
 
b_S

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SMH gives cyclists a serve, again...

LOL!

From the polished turd that is "Sport and Style" What a shiny piece of crap it is...:rolleyes:
 
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