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Bike licensing doesn’t work, just ask Boris

Bike licensing doesn’t work, just ask Boris

Anti-cycling forum ranters the world over love to point out that motorists pay for roads (wrong!) so cyclists should steer clear, and in the same sentence, or shortly thereafter, they often bring up the ‘all cyclists should be licensed’ canard. How would this work? Number plates on the back of bikes. If only law-abiding members […]


Why do some from the motorised majority want cyclists to be taxed, licenced & have number plates?

Why do some from the motorised majority want cyclists to be taxed, licenced & have number plates?

Why should cyclists pay for the use of roads when motorists don’t? And if cyclists did pay it would only be 3p a year at most so why bother? The UK’s Department for Transport is pretty good on registration for cyclists: the standard reply is along the lines of “if we required cyclists to be […]