Don’t you just hate that? You’re minding your own business and someone on a bike wobbles into your path and you miss them by the skin of their teeth. They run red lights and ignore stop signs and there is no way if identifying them. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could quote a number, perhaps like a rego number for any other road going vehicle.
I’ve always thought the reason most bike riders ignore road rules is they can. Sydney has been putting in bike paths left right and centre and they are becoming more popular as fuel, parking and tolls go up and up. It’s a great idea but perhaps there are a few tweaks which would benefit us all. A small ID plate might cost just a few dollars a year for a bike. And would it really hurt bike riders to have to pass a test to ride on the road? They might have to carry a licence as you you do when you drive a motor vehicle and this would allow errant riders to tow a line which made them a little bt less of a nuisance to others.
It’s just a thought….
As a new-ish cyclist (coming back to it after my teen years) I agree that there should be some basic test for cyclists on the road. Roads have changed and are getting busier. Cyclists have to realise that and get with the programme. As for an ID – yeah, all good stuff……….and as a car driver, when a cyclist does something stupid, it shouldn’t feel like open season……but strangely, sympathy disappears.
I’m with you. I’m back on the bike after years. I thought it might stop me from putting on weight after giving up smoking. I don’t run red lights and I don’t see why they do.
Absolutely! When I was bus driving I slowed to turn and a bike rode between the bus and the gutter straight in my path. Lucky for him I saw him in my mirror and even though he gave me the finger, lucky for me; I wouldn’t like splattered bike and rider on my conscience.
I totally feel the same way! And it’s pretty dangerous when they get close to cars, not only for the cars but themselves! You’d think they’d be a little more careful and follow the rules! Great post 🙂
It’s one of those things. We thought we couldn’t be the only ones who think this. I ride a bike myself and the thing is we do just like the other road users do. It’s interesting to hear hat others think of the same thing…
This is a realy logical idea. I never thought of it before but they do say bikes have all the rights of cars. Its time they had the same responsibility too. Then again Im happiest never seeing a bike. They disrupt flows of traffic.
I agree but the fact is we may all be using more of them for short trips. But there has to be a reckoning and it’s high time that something to identify those who make it a trial for the rest of us. Someone said to me the other day that we hate anything that isn’t a car and I replied that that’s not the case, we simply don’t like people driving/riding like idiots.