Reg Plates for Bicycles.

kneemos

Included in the purchase price,a central registration office and change of ownership etc.
Plenty of cameras about to spot the "bad cyclists".Also if someone else is riding your bike then the owner remains responsible until they provide their name .
A possible goldmine in minor fines if half of what I hear about cyclists is true.

major bill

Throw in an NCT while your at it

Tony Beetroot

Slow down the aero dynamics, would need to consume double doses of gels to compensate for drag.

fleet_admiral

Lets set up reg plates for while you out walking while we are at it

frozenfrozen

new cyclists must use stabilisers for 2 years after passing their test

OldMrBrennan83

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listermint

What about reg plates for pedestrians OP.



Why stop there ........

aaronjumper

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

Slow down the aero dynamics, would need to consume double doses of gels to compensate for drag.

Sometimes I use big words to sound more photosynthesis.

whisky_galore

How about a reg plate for pedestrians? Or a licence for cats?

Señor Fancy Pants

Let's get pram/buggy plates too!

What's next, wheelchair plates?

Anyone that thinks this is a good idea, may have eaten too much mala as a kid.

The J Stands for Jay

How's about snipers at all traffic lights to kill offenders. Use less powerful rifles for the cyclists as there'll be no windscreens etc to penetrate.

Foot patrols armed with cattle prods to ensure compliance with jay walking laws.

Free Hat

whisky_galore wrote: »

How about a reg plate for pedestrians? Or a licence for cats?

You need a licence for a dog.

DavyD_83

Just tattoo a number on each person's forehead.
What mode of transport they use is then irrelevant

Iwasfrozen

It's a great idea. I can report cyclists who cycle on the pavement or skip traffic lights.

Magico Gonzalez

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

It's a great idea. I can report cyclists who cycle on the pavement or skip traffic lights.

This is necessary, the amount of fatalities and serious injuries caused by cyclists is too high....err, no, hang on. I have that wrong I think.

BrokenArrows

kneemos wrote: »

Included in the purchase price,a central registration office and change of ownership etc.
Plenty of cameras about to spot the "bad cyclists".Also if someone else is riding your bike then the owner remains responsible until they provide their name .
A possible goldmine in minor fines if half of what I hear about cyclists is true.

I think its a great idea.
Cyclists use the same roads as cars and motorbikes and we all know they are far more likely to break red lights than cars or motorbikes.

If a cyclist causes an accident they can just cycle away and there is zero chance of them being found as their is no identifying thing on the bike that can uniquely identify them.

As a basic example some teenager was screwing around on their bike, doing wheelies down a road. He lost control and crashed into my friends parked car causing large scratches in the paint work. Cost hundreds to repair. So the kid got up and started to cycle away. Had it not been seen at the time and chased down he would have got away free even though there was a security camera showing everything clearly.

Free Hat

What I am taking from all of this is that I really need to take my number plates off my car.

rubadub

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Cyclists use the same roads as cars and motorbikes and we all know they are far more likely to break red lights than cars or motorbikes.

If a cyclist causes an accident they can just cycle away and there is zero chance of them being found as their is no identifying thing on the bike that can uniquely identify them.

Same could be said of the other most vulnerable road users. The RSA state that pedestrians and cyclists are the most vulnerable roadusers. People suggested licence plates for pedestrians, possibly joking, but it would make more sense to go for them if your goal is like the quote below

kneemos wrote: »

A possible goldmine in minor fines if half of what I hear about cyclists is true.

Pedestrians are by far the worst roadusers for breaking laws. Many of these ignorant hypocritical cunts are even unaware that there are laws related to them. You could set up CCTV in any busy area and clean up if you could read their pedestrian plates.

Mandatory alcohol drinking helmets would also make more sense than mandatory cycling helmets which some think should be brought into law.

Mesrine65

rubadub wrote: »

Mandatory alcohol drinking helmets should be brought into law.

I like the cut of your gib sir

Grayson

BrokenArrows wrote: »

I think its a great idea.
Cyclists use the same roads as cars and motorbikes and we all know they are far more likely to break red lights than cars or motorbikes.

If a cyclist causes an accident they can just cycle away and there is zero chance of them being found as their is no identifying thing on the bike that can uniquely identify them.

As a basic example some teenager was screwing around on their bike, doing wheelies down a road. He lost control and crashed into my friends parked car causing large scratches in the paint work. Cost hundreds to repair. So the kid got up and started to cycle away. Had it not been seen at the time and chased down he would have got away free even though there was a security camera showing everything clearly.

I know a woman who once keyed a car that parked too close to her. Licence plates for keys?

one day man

sounds good, at first.

however there must be some way of distinguishing between a cyclist/douchebag and someone such as myself who from time to time might go down the shops on my bike.


Im not a cyclist, Im a guy who sometimes uses a bike.
To be a cyclist you need to hold up traffic/the economy for your sporting pleasure and wear camp rubber pants.


as for anyone cycling in a city center, any way to annoy or make life needlessly difficult for them can only be a good thing.

porsche959

There needs to be better enforcement of reckless and illegal cyclists' behaviour, but this kind of bureaucracy is simply unnecessary.

gaius c

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

It's a great idea. I can report cyclists who cycle on the pavement or skip traffic lights.

I put your reg plates on my bike.

Son Of A Vidic

porsche959 wrote: »

but this kind of bureaucracy is simply unnecessary.

The word unnecessary doesn't exist, for a nation that has mastered bureaucracy like no other.

glynf

Better idea to fit RFID tag in the frame of all new bikes. Fit readers and red light/ANPR cameras (same as the ones being fitted at Luas junctions) at traffic lights in the city centre; If a bike runs a light, send a fine to the registered address for that tag. simples.

kneemos

glynf wrote: »

Better idea to fit RFID tag in the frame of all new bikes. Fit readers and red light/ANPR cameras (same as the ones being fitted at Luas junctions) at traffic lights in the city centre; If a bike runs a light, send a fine to the registered address for that tag. simples.

There's still cycling on footpaths,one way streets,hitting cars etc.

Señor Fancy Pants

Can we not just introduce biotagging?

Make it mandatory for everyone in the country to have a GPS chip with personal information on it.

It sends real time info to a central server in Garda HQ. Anyone that reports an act that contravenes a law, with a date, time and location.

The numpty at GHQ can search the system and see whose biotag was at the reported location at the reported time.

Everyone has to pay an annual upfront €350 in "biotag update tax". And also rent the device for €30 per calender month.

The revenue will be amazeballs. Think about the efficiency of it all!

OP for Prezident!

OldMrBrennan83

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percy212

What about reg plates for me budgie?

murpho999

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

The word unnecessary doesn't exist, for a nation that has mastered bureaucracy like no other.

Don't think you've ever lived abroad then.

Ireland not that bad at all compared to other countries.

rubadub

Grayson wrote: »

I know a woman who once keyed a car that parked too close to her. Licence plates for keys?

I expect there are far more cars damaged by shopping trolleys than cyclists. Many trolley reg plates, licences, theory tests, insurance etc.

one day man wrote: »

someone such as myself who from time to time might go down the shops on my bike.

This is a point most forget, the majority of people have probably cycled in the past 20 years. If many of these requests were brought out people would lose the use of their bikes.

If parents had their young children obey the law then many would also have to stop the kids using their bikes -i.e. its illegal for kids to cycle on footpaths yet many parents instruct them to do this illegal act -many of them hypocrictical ***** who give out about other roadusers breaking laws, any they probably illegal cross roads on foot themselves too.

Señor Fancy Pants

Patww79 wrote: »

The utopia we'd be living in would make the fees worthwhile. Senor Fancypants for president!

Ooooh I like that!

A vote for Senor Fancy Pants, is a vote for change! All hail Fancy Pants.

I can almost taste it! Nice one Pat

beauf

DavyD_83 wrote: »

Just tattoo a number on each person's forehead.
What mode of transport they use is then irrelevant

It would have to be visible day and night. So everyone walking should have to wear hi vis with a number plate on it.

Handy for lost kids or getting vandalism on cctv.

one day man

Señor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Can we not just introduce biotagging?

Make it mandatory for everyone in the country to have a GPS chip with personal information on it.

It sends real time info to a central server in Garda HQ. Anyone that reports an act that contravenes a law, with a date, time and location.

The numpty at GHQ can search the system and see whose biotag was at the reported location at the reported time.

Everyone has to pay an annual upfront €350 in "biotag update tax". And also rent the device for €30 per calender month.

The revenue will be amazeballs. Think about the efficiency of it all!

OP for Prezident!

I think this goes a bit far in asking that everybody be biotagged, however, I would be very supportive of biotagging for pedophiles, confirmed cyclists and other deviants in general.

beauf

Free Hat wrote: »

You need a licence for a dog.

How about a dog license plate so cctv can catch those dogs fouling the pavement.

beauf

one day man wrote: »

.... confirmed cyclists and other deviants in general.

The kids will be delighted to know that cycling to school makes them deviant.

What's a confirmed cyclist. One you get with the door just in case you're not driving close enough to?

http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/comment-image/243302.jpg

Knasher

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

It's a great idea. I can report cyclists who cycle on the pavement or skip traffic lights.

Do you currently report motorists who you see breaking the law? And does anything ever come of it? I've considered it once or twice, for really hazardous stuff, but I always figured that it would fall on deaf ears.

one day man

beauf wrote: »

The kids will be delighted to know that cycling to school makes them deviant.

What's a confirmed cyclist. One you get with the door just in case you're not driving close enough to?

Those kids aren't cyclists, they're people using a bike on occasion.

A confirmed cyclist is a different creature/public hazard altogether.

glynf

kneemos wrote: »

There's still cycling on footpaths,one way streets,hitting cars etc.

It's a start.

cajonlardo

You know.
You just know.

The doses who start/rant in these anti cycling threads are the same doses tootling along at 75 kph in the overtaking lanes, the same doses driving in front of the luas, talking on mobiles, sliding all over the gaff in the lightest snow, calling the Auto rescue to change their puncture, throwing cigarette butts out the window, driving up the footpath at the school, driving into the back of each other, losing their licence and having to cycle to work ( and then getting cyclists a bad name...)

OldMrBrennan83

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beauf

Theres also this

Bike insurance sticker
The vignette (insurance sticker) for bicycles was phased out at the beginning of 2012. Cover against damage caused to third parties in an accident involving a bicycle can be provided by your personal liability insurance. If you ride a pedal-assisted e-bike with a speed of over 25 km/h, you need a motor-assisted bicycle authorisation and an annually-renewable vignette (read how to get one below).

https://www.ch.ch/en/cycling-switzerland/

cajonlardo

Patww79 wrote: »

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What is far fetched? Even though it was posted in jest, just point out one single thing in it that motorists aren't doing every hour of every single day?

OldMrBrennan83

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Free Hat

cajonlardo wrote: »

You know.
You just know.

The doses who start/rant in these anti cycling threads are the same doses tootling along at 75 kph in the overtaking lanes, the same doses driving in front of the luas, talking on mobiles, sliding all over the gaff in the lightest snow, calling the Auto rescue to change their puncture, throwing cigarette butts out the window, driving up the footpath at the school, driving into the back of each other, losing their licence and having to cycle to work ( and then getting cyclists a bad name...)

I have often thought most cyclists were disqualified drivers. I mean why else would you want to cycle a bike?

cajonlardo

Free Hat wrote: »

I have often thought most cyclists were disqualified drivers. I mean why else would you want to cycle a bike?

Because I'm in a hurry?

Free Hat

cajonlardo wrote: »

Because I'm in a hurry?

That's why you are breaking all those red lights I assume.:)

NotYourYear20

beauf wrote: »

How about a dog license plate so cctv can catch those dogs fouling the pavement.

I'd prefer if we did it for disease carrying cat vermin.

one day man

Free Hat wrote: »

I have often thought most cyclists were disqualified drivers. I mean why else would you want to cycle a bike?

some people just want to watch the world burn

cajonlardo

Free Hat wrote: »

That's why you are breaking all those red lights I assume.:)

Assume all you like, but its a fact I can run my 10 mile commute faster than I can drive it. I love my 2 cars, I've rebuilt one of them and I won't waste it in start /stop nonsense.

beauf

Free Hat wrote: »

I have often thought most cyclists were disqualified drivers. I mean why else would you want to cycle a bike?

If you drive on the quays a lot you'll have plenty of time to think about it.