Stop Cycling up Ditchling Beacon!!!!

[Wrong-Direction]

Are you still hanging out the bait? You must be getting bored of it by now, surely?

A fisherman is a jerk on one end of the line waiting for a jerk on the other [emoji476]

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

A fisherman is a jerk on when end of the line waiting for a jerk on the other [emoji476]

This is so true

 

[Wrong-Direction]

This is so true

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[Brighton TID]

Please explain 'phnarr' is this the language of wankersville

Yes it is from wankersville, but I don't care, I'm proud of my wankersville roots

 

[£1.99]

Great news, the Department for Transport approves funding for improvements to pedestrian and cycling in Brighton!
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...9379/lsft-2015-2016-headline-descriptions.pdf

 

[desprateseagull]

I guess the beacon is quite a challenging ride, though no way I would attempt it without some fitness training first..

Having car drivers up yer bum, over revving engines doesn't help, neither. If in such a rush, use the main roads!

 

[desprateseagull]

It's not a great road for cars.
It's a local 'icon' for cyclists.

But it's a road not a cycle path, which is why I steer clear.
Ditchling is more of an annual trip out, nothing more.

What specific reasons do you have for driving it?
(Genuine question I don't know the other roads across the Downs, but I'm sure there's plenty more car friendly roads, than that one)

I never knew roads were exclusively for cars, nowadays..

 

[desprateseagull]

This would all be SOLVED if cyclists just paid the TAX like all us motorists do FFS!

what if the cyclist has a car, already? any car drivers that doesn't pay tax, insurance etc?

 

[Wrong-Direction]

what if the cyclist has a car, already? any car drivers that doesn't pay tax, insurance etc?

What?

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

As an aside, I went in my old Previa to Newhaven and back today via the Iford/Kingston road.
This is a typical country road and is designated 50mph until you reach the 30mph hamlets thank christ.
I thought 40mph was fast enough due to the amount of cyclists and hikers lurking on every bend.
Considering the speed motorists are allowed to go I'm surprised anyone on a bike would risk it - let alone walkers

To even things up tho,on my way back I had a prick in a blue Scirocco VW right up my arse from Newhaven to the Kingston roundabout onto the main Lewes Road.

I probably saved a few lives holding him up

Judging by the look I got as he sped away towards the Amex he wasn't a happy bunny

 

[Stat Brother]

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

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Will these be available in the club shop------in blue please.
Shirley that florescent fellow should have both hands on the bike and be looking the right way-----accident waiting to happen in my view
Bit of an own goal there Stat

 

[banjo]

Will these be available in the club shop------in blue please.
Shirley that florescent fellow should have both hands on the bike and be looking the right way-----accident waiting to happen in my view
Bit of an own goal there Stat

I think your becoming a secret geek Simmo.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

I think your becoming a secret geek Simmo.

I did have a red Chopper bike once. A yob from Caledonian Road nicked it.

Oh-----its you're

 

[BN9 BHA]

As an aside, I went in my old Previa to Newhaven and back today via the Iford/Kingston road.
This is a typical country road and is designated 50mph until you reach the 30mph hamlets thank christ.
I thought 40mph was fast enough due to the amount of cyclists and hikers lurking on every bend.
Considering the speed motorists are allowed to go I'm surprised anyone on a bike would risk it - let alone walkers

To even things up tho,on my way back I had a prick in a blue Scirocco VW right up my arse from Newhaven to the Kingston roundabout onto the main Lewes Road.

I probably saved a few lives holding him up

Judging by the look I got as he sped away towards the Amex he wasn't a happy bunny

You didn't call round for a cup of tea, oh hang on I went for a spin in my VW Scirocco

 

[Wrong-Direction]

This is getting far too sensible for my liking! BAN CYCLISTS ON COUNTRY ROADS! MAKE THEM PAY THEIR OWN TAX!

 

[BN9 BHA]

I went up Ditchling Beacon today and got stuck behind [MENTION=435]Stat Brother[/MENTION]

 

[Stat Brother]

I went up Ditchling Beacon today and got stuck behind [MENTION=435]Stat Brother[/MENTION]



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I wish I was in such fine shape.

Anyway you'd know it if you were 'stuck' behind me up the Beacon.
I'm the cyclist waving you through at the very first opportunity.

 

[fcportaloo]

Road tax doesn't exist. It's car tax, a tax on cars and other vehicles, not a tax on roads or a fee to use them. Motorists do not pay directly for the roads. Roads are paid for via general and local taxation. In 1926, Winston Churchill started the process to abolish road tax. It was finally culled in 1937. Car tax is based on amount of CO2 emitted so, if a fee had to be paid, cyclists - who are sometimes branded as 'tax-dodgers' - would pay the same as 'tax-dodgers' such as disabled drivers, police cars, the Royal family, and band A motorists, ie £0. Most cyclists are also car-owners, too, so pay VED. Many of those who believe road tax exists, want cyclists off the roads or, at least registered, but bicycle licensing is an expensive folly.

 

[Motogull]

Road tax doesn't exist. It's car tax, a tax on cars and other vehicles, not a tax on roads or a fee to use them. Motorists do not pay directly for the roads. Roads are paid for via general and local taxation. In 1926, Winston Churchill started the process to abolish road tax. It was finally culled in 1937. Car tax is based on amount of CO2 emitted so, if a fee had to be paid, cyclists - who are sometimes branded as 'tax-dodgers' - would pay the same as 'tax-dodgers' such as disabled drivers, police cars, the Royal family, and band A motorists, ie £0. Most cyclists are also car-owners, too, so pay VED. Many of those who believe road tax exists, want cyclists off the roads or, at least registered, but bicycle licensing is an expensive folly.

The thing is, I reckon most cyclists would have no problem with licencing and insurance. The costs would have to low though because governments want more cycle usage and would not want to make it prohibitively expensive. Setting the system up would be a logistical nightmare. If it were costed, I suspect there would be widespread criticism (and not just from regular cyclists) on the bases of inconsistency with the current 'policy' of reducing red tape, uneconomic use of central funds and poor prioritising of funds in these austere times.